Brown and joined Frank Whittle's Power Jets. He continued to work on gas turbines for this rest of his career. Character Georges Roesch was not a boastful or articulate man. An insight into his irascible perfectionism may be gained from the report that he refused ever to have a vacuum cleaner in his house because he found none of the existing vacuum cleaner designs satisfactory. Sources and further reading External links https://web.archive.org/web/20040810003108/http://www.sunbeam.org.uk/Talbot.htm http://vea.qc.ca/vea/marques1/talboteng.htm http://www.talbotownersclub.co.uk 1891 births 1969 deaths British automotive pioneers Engineers from Geneva Swiss emigrants to the United Kingdom