Rolls Royce Avon Engine, South Lanarkshire College


Photograph taken by Craig MacLean and not to be reproduced without permission

This was unveiled on 25 October 2019 and is of a jet engine subject to a workers’ boycott in Scotland during the 1970s because it was to be used by Chilean dictator General Pinochet’s airforce.

See:-  https://www.south-lanarkshire-college.ac.uk/news/naepasaran/

See:- https://unitelive.org/pinochet-boycott-rolls-royce-unveiled/

Award winning film on the episode

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