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Jenkins receives Henry Royce medal
Neil Jenkins, Managing Director of Gibbs Technologies, the high speed amphibious technology development company, has been awarded the prestigious Sir Henry Royce Memorial Gold Medal.
Neil Jenkins, Managing Director of Gibbs Technologies, the high speed amphibious (HSA) technology development company, has been awarded the prestigious Sir Henry Royce Memorial Gold Medal for his achievements in perpetuating Sir Henry Royce's engineering philosophy - the pursuit of excellence On Monday 7th March 2005 Jenkins gave a presentation at the IIE Sir Henry Royce Memorial Lecture on "Gibbs Aquada - a quantum leap in transport technology" at Savoy Place, London
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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He was presented with the medal by President of the Institution of Incorporated Engineers, The Rt Hon Lord Trefgarne PC, and Philip Hall, Chairman of the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation.
The lecture takes place on a biennial basis and other speakers to be recognised in recent years include broadcaster and scientist, Dr Adam Hart-Davis, Sir Robert Malpas CBE and Adrian Reynard of Reynard Racing.
This is the second major award for Jenkins.
He was awarded the Churchill Medal by the society of engineers in October last year.
Past winners of the Churchill Medal include Sir Frank Whittle, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland and Sir Christopher Cockerell.
Gibbs Technologies, under Jenkins' leadership, has been granted 60 patents covering its ground-breaking high speed amphibious technology.
The company had originally intended to manufacture 100 UK vehicles to test the market, but worldwide demand has led it to focus on licensing its technology.
It is now testing markets around the world in other ways including running vehicles under evaluation in the USA.
Over 1.5 million people have now registered interest worldwide.
Jenkins said: "Interest has been so great from all over the world the world that we were unable to satisfy requirements and so decided to focus on licensing the technology".
"As a result we are now talking to a significant number of potential licensees".
Alan Gibbs, Chairman of Gibbs Technologies said: "We are very proud of Neil's achievement in being awarded the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation Gold Medal and believe its award is proof of the quality of engineering and innovation that HSA technology represents".
Although it is already in talks with potential licensees the company admits the process may take some time.
Jenkins adds: "We expect vehicles to be available from licensees in about 3 years time".
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