Clerget-Blin

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Clerget, Blin et Cie
IndustryAerospace engineering
Founded18 August 1913
Defunct1 January 1947
FateMerged with SNECMA
HeadquartersLevallois-Perret, France
Key people
 (Designer)
ProductsAircraft engines
Clerget 9B rotary engine

Clerget-Blin (full name being Société Clerget-Blin et Cie) was a French precision engineering company formed in 1913 by the engineer and inventor and industrialist . In 1939, the company was absorbed into the Groupe d'étude des moteurs à huile lourde (GEHL; "Diesel Engine Study Group"), which was further merged into SNECMA in 1947.

Products[]

Main article: Clerget aircraft engines

The Clerget-Blin company mainly produced aircraft engines, their successful rotary engine designs were also built in Britain by companies such as Gwynnes Limited, and , to increase the output in the times of World War I.[1]

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Notes[]

  1. ^ Lumsden 2003, p.133.

Bibliography[]

  • Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. ISBN 1-85260-163-9
  • Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-85310-294-6.
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