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Clerget, Blin et Cie Industry Aerospace engineering Fate Merged with SNECMA Founded 18 August 1913 Defunct 1 January 1947 Headquarters Levallois-Perret, France Key people Pierre Clerget (Designer) Products Aircraft engines Clerget-Blin (full name being Société Clerget-Blin et Cie) was a French precision engineering company formed in 1913 by the engineer and inventor Pierre Clerget and industrialist Eugène Blin. 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.
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The Clerget-Blin company mainly produced aircraft engines, see Clerget aircraft engines. Their successful rotary engine designs were additionally built in Britain by companies such as Gwynnes Ltd, Ruston Proctor and Gordon Watney, to increase the output in the times of World War I.[1]
See also
- List of aircraft engine manufacturers
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.
Clerget aircraft engines Rotary engines Radial diesel engines 9A · 14F
'H' engines Type Transatlantique
'X' engines 16X
See also: Clerget aircraft engines Lists relating to aviation General Aircraft (manufacturers) · Aircraft engines (manufacturers) · Airlines (defunct) · Airports · Civil authorities · Museums · Registration prefixes · Rotorcraft (manufacturers) · TimelineMilitary Accidents/incidents Records Categories:- Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of France
- Companies established in 1913
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