Industry sources believe that inferior financial heft contributed to Bombardier losing out as preferred bidder for the Thameslink contract, forcing the manufacturer to announce plans to cut more than 1,400 jobs at its Derby factory.

Instead the Derby factory was extended to enable Rolls-Royce to increase its own production rates.

The decision was criticised for not awarding the contract to the Bombardier/Siemens offer which was expected to have resulted in work for Bombardier's Derby factory.

Like the Silver Ghost, the Phantom was constructed both at Rolls-Royces' Derby factory in the United Kingdom and at a factory in Springfield, Massachusetts in the United States.

This plate was used in the Derby factories to show trainees the standard that was expected.

The first run of engine R1 took place at Rolls-Royce's Derby factory on 7 April 1929 with R7 running the next day.

Rolls-Royce Wraith, originally built by Rolls-Royce at their Derby factory from 1938 to 1939 and supplied to independent coachbuilders as a running chassis.

These figures were made in Derby nearly forty years after Waters' death at the Derby factory of Stevenson & Hancock.

Here the approach has been through the use of APL (pioneered originally in the Derby factories in the mid 705).

The Government has provided £80m of funding towards a new £189m train order for Bombardier, whose Derby factory was put at risk by the loss of a £1.4bn rail contract to German rival Siemens.