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Aircraft Engine Developments During the Past Half Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Frank Nixon
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As was said of Richard Trevithick, “Practical men are too apt to leave facts unrecorded”, and this is particularly true of those involved in the development of Britain's aircraft engine industry.

The names of a few people come to mind immediately, but there are others whose contribution has played a crucial yet barely-recognised part in directing the overall trend. In addition there are many others who have filled lesser but vital roles as members of the teams led by the better-known pioneers.

Source-material on which to base an account of the work of Society members is scanty, since the great majority of published papers have preserved that strict anonymity which is indicative of British “team spirit”.

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A Century of British Aeronautics
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 661 , January 1966, pp. 150 - 167
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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Note on page 150 * Trevithick, F. The Life of Richard Trevithick, 1872.

Note on page 150 * Neither of whom was “qualified” in the current sense.

Note on page 151 * Brett, R. D. History of British Aviation, 1908-1914. No date but probably published between 1929 and 1937.

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Note on page 157 † Captain Andrew Swan, for ten years Head of Engine Dept, RAE, later D D R & D (Engines), MAP and MoS.

Note on page 157 * Vide Owner, F. M. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. LXVII, July 1963.

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Note on page 159 * Moult, E. S. An Engine Designer's Scrapbook. Chartered Mechanical Engineer. December 1965.

Note on page 159 † Wilson, C. H. and Reader, W. J. Men and Machines, 1950.

Note on page 160 * Wilson and Reader, loc. cit.

Note on page 160 † Schlaifer and Heron, loc. cit.

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Note on page 166 * Owner, F. M. Bristol Gas Turbines—First Decade. Journal of The Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. 67, July 1963.