When you buy a Rolls-Royce engine, you don't buy a product, you buy the promise of a working engine for a number of years.
It also has a Foden chassis, a body by Glover and Webb and is powered by a 12-litre Rolls-Royce engine, Mr Humbert of JP Humbert Auctioneers said.
The Canberra has broad wings, with a Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engine halfway along each.
Rolls-Royce monitors the engine remotely, gets parts to airports around the world and constantly innovates.
The Rolls-Royce Crosspointe jet engine disc manufacturing facility the President will visit is an example of how insourcing means companies from around the world are creating new, good paying jobs here at home.
As it happens, a few hundred yards away is a more promising outfit: Rolls-Royce, an engine manufacturer for the aerospace, marine and energy sectors (its chairman, Sir Simon Robertson, also sits on the board of The Economist).
In America, the antitrust authorities have even allowed the pair to form an alliance to compete with Rolls-Royce to supply an engine for the super-jumbo that Boeing was planning until recently.
Rolls-Royce's relies on more efficient engine technology - jointly developed with others within the BMW group.
Small cracks have been discovered on the wings, and in 2010 a Rolls Royce engine on a Qantas flight exploded in mid-flight.
Rolls-Royce already gleans 51% of its revenue from servicing its engine fleet: its Trent jet engines are continuously assessed from a slick operations room at Derby.
The Rolls-Royce Crosspointe facility is a center of excellence for advanced manufacturing of precision-engineered engine discs and other components for some of the most sophisticated aircraft in the world.
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