It is possible to imagine Rolls-Royce being stuck in the equivalent of a dramatic climax of an Indiana Jones movie.
Our engineering heroes are halfway across a wobbly, burning bridge that has safe and exciting opportunities ahead for its ship engine division perhaps made up of low carbon, vessel automation and digitalisation.
But the plucky propulsion people are fleeing a landscape of freight rate downturn, plunging orders, corporate restructuring and major job losses.
