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  • Bristol Aero Engines Ltd

Aero-engine manufacturers
Operating dates:
  • 1956 - 1958
Location:
  • Filton, South Gloucestershire
History:
  • Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd’s aircraft and engine operations were split in 1956 as Bristol Aircraft Ltd and Bristol Aero Engines Ltd, both with head offices at Filton. In 1958 Bristol Aero Engines Ltd merged with Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd to form Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd, before being purchased by Rolls-Royce in 1966. This acquisition left Rolls-Royce as the only major aero-engine company in Britain. From 1967, Bristol Siddeley's operations became the Bristol Engine Division and the Small Engine Division of Rolls-Royce, separate to Rolls-Royce's own existing Aero Engine Division. A number of Bristol Siddeley engines continued to be developed under Rolls-Royce including the Olympus turbojet and the Pegasus.
Principle aero-engines manufactured:
  • Pegasus (1958).
Publications:

  • D N James, The Bristol Aeroplane Company (2001).

Records 1:

  • Coventry Archives 

    Stress department reports action 1957-58 [PA1716/5/11/2/100, 261]; handwritten installation data re Bristol Olympus Mk.200 1948 [PA1716/5/11/2/3]; Olympus B.O1.6/21 engine advance performance folder c.1954 [PA1716/5/11/1], publicity brochure re Olympus turbojet engine 1956 [PA1716/5/11/1/9].

Records 2:

  • Aerospace Bristol 

    Photographic negatives: map of Bristol Aero Engines Ltd 1956 [BAE PH1/numbers/30994, 32813-6], exterior of Bristol Aero Engines (Western) Ltd factory, Canada 1955 [BAE PH1/numbers/30047, BAE PH1/1/4076]; flight operations manual for Bristol Aircraft Ltd and Bristol Aero-Engines Ltd 1959 [RRADD/10].

Records 3:

  • The National Archives 

    Papers re capital assistance for Ramjet development facilities 1954-64 [AVIA65/16, 1406]; H M Factory Inspectorate specimen regional office papers re Bristol Aero Engines Ltd 1956-59 [LAB67/33].

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