Bristol Siddeley

Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd. was a British manufacturer of aircraft engines . Bristol Siddeley also temporarily produced automobiles through subsidiaries.

Company history

Bristol Siddeley Engines was created in April 1959 through the merger of two previously independent companies from the aircraft industry. On the one hand, Bristol Aero Engines Ltd. , which made the engines for the Bristol Airplane Company , and Armstrong Siddeley Motors , the engine manufacturer of the Hawker-Siddeley Group . The Bristol Siddeley Engines plant was located in Filton , a suburb of the city of Bristol . Produced Turbinenluftstrahl- and ramjet engines , gas turbines , rocket engines and diesel engines .

In 1961, Bristol took over Siddeley de Havilland Engines Limited , de Havilland's engine division . Bristol Siddeley was taken over by Rolls-Royce in 1966 .

Bristol Siddeley aircraft engines

Bristol Siddeley Orpheus

The most famous engines were

In addition, engines from the French company Turboméca SA and the US manufacturer The General Electric Company were built under license.

Automobile production

Bristol 406 (1960)

Armstrong Siddeley not only produced aircraft engines, but also automobiles. The same applied to the Bristol Airplane Company, whose subsidiary Bristol Cars had been manufacturing luxury cars since 1946. With the merger of Bristol Aero Planes and Armstrong Siddeley, the two automobile manufacturers were also merged under the umbrella of Bristol Siddeley. During this time Armstrong Siddeley produced the sedan Sapphire and Bristol Cars the coupé 406 . At the end of 1959, the company's management considered merging the organisationally separate automobile manufacturers into one joint operation; in January 1960, however, she favored the closure of Bristol Cars. Before that happened, George White, a leading manager at Bristol Cars, and the car dealer Tony Crook took over all company shares in Bristol Cars Ltd. in September 1960, which was then spun off from Bristol Siddeley Engines and continued as an independent company. Bristol Cars existed in this form until 2010. Armstrong Siddeley's automotive division was closed in the summer of 1960.

Web links

Commons : Bristol Siddeley - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Christopher Balfour: Bristol Cars. A very British story , Haynes Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-844254071 , p. 250.
↑ Christopher Balfour: Bristol Cars. A very British story , Haynes Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-844254071 , p. 254.

[1] Christopher Balfour: Bristol Cars. A very British story , Haynes Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-844254071 , p. 250.

[2] Christopher Balfour: Bristol Cars. A very British story , Haynes Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-844254071 , p. 254.