Clerget-Blin
Industry | Aerospace engineering |
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Founded | 18 August 1913 |
Defunct | 1 January 1947 |
Fate | Merged with SNECMA |
Headquarters | Levallois-Perret, France |
Key people | (Designer) |
Products | Aircraft engines |
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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[]
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[]
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of France
- Manufacturing companies established in 1913
- 1913 establishments in France
- Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1947
- 1947 disestablishments in France