Why Whittle might cooperate with larger firms in 1928

How would a wider industrial program work with Whittle's reluctance to cooperate with large companies and lose control?

The earlier timing matters, and an Admiralty royalty arrangement could give large firms production work while preserving Whittle and Power Jets' stake in the technology.

The timing changes Whittle's position. In 1928 he had not yet endured the Air Ministry decisions that dispersed his ideas, weakened his company, and ended in nationalization. An Admiralty arrangement modeled on its earlier dealings with Parsons could pay Power Jets a royalty for every turbine made by a larger manufacturer. That structure would give the program industrial capacity while leaving Whittle a continuing financial and technical stake.