The Bristol Aeroplane Company (formerly British and Colonial Aeroplane Company) began building primitive Bristol Boxkites in a former tram shed and became famous for the production of the war-time Blenheim and Beaufighter, the Brabazon airliner prototype, the Britannia and Freighter and the Belvedere and Sycamore helicopters. A stainless steel test aeroplane, the Type 188, was also constructed in their factory next to Filton aerodrome to the north of Bristol city centre. In 1959 Bristol was forced to merge with English Electric, Hunting Aircraft and Vickers-Armstrongs to form the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), later to become part of British Aerospace, now BAE Systems. Bristol is an English city and county and one of the two administrative centres of South West England (the other being Plymouth). ... The English Electric Company was formed in 1918 and, during that year and 1919, acquired control of Dick, Kerr & Co of Preston, England, Willans & Robinson of Rugby , England, and the Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company of Bradford. ... Hunting Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer, primarily producing light training aircraft. ... The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment. ... The British Aircraft Corporation, or BAC, was a British aircraft manufacturer, formed from the forced merger of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, English Electric, Vickers-Armstrong and Hunting Aircraft Company in 1959. ... BAe evolution since 1955 until 1999 merger to form BAE Systems British Aerospace (BAe) was a British aircraft manufacturer, now part of BAE SYSTEMS. The company was formed on April 29, 1977 by the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act. ... BAE Systems is the worlds fourth largest defence contractor and a commercial aerospace products manufacturer. ...

UK Ministry of Defence Bristol Britannia makes a visit to the maker's factory at Filton (Bristol, England) in 1983. As a civil airliner it had flown for BOAC, British Eagle and Air Spain.

The Bristol Type 192 Belvedere twin-blade helicopter. The Belvedere was a twin rotor helicopter designed to meet a requirement by the Royal Air Force for a general purpose land-based helicopter. Twenty six were built.

The Bristol Engine Company was originally a separate entity, Cosmos Engineering, in turn formed from the pre-WW1 automobile company, Brazil-Straker. In 1917 Cosmos was asked to investigate air-cooled radial engines, producing the Bristol Mercury, a 14 cylinder two-row (helical) radial, which they launched in 1918. This engine saw little use, but a smaller and simpler 9 cylinder version known as the Bristol Jupiter was clearly a winning design. In the post-war rapid downsizing of military orders the company went bankrupt, and the Air Ministry let it be known that it would be a good idea if Bristol purchased them. The Jupiter competed with the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar through the 1920s, but Bristol put more effort into their design, and by 1929, the Jupiter was clearly superior. In the 1930s they developed a new line of radials based on the sleeve valve principle, which would develop into some of the most powerful piston engines in the world, and could continue to be sold into the 1950s. In 1956 the division was renamed Bristol Aero Engines, and then merged with Armstrong Siddeley in 1958 to form Bristol Siddeley as a part of the airframe mergers that formed BAC. In 1966 Bristol Siddeley merged with Rolls-Royce, leaving only one major aero-engine company in England, Rolls-Royce. UK Ministry of Defence Bristol Brittania XX367 (previously G-AOVM) makes a courtesy visit to the makers factory at Filton (Bristol, England) in 1983. ... UK Ministry of Defence Bristol Brittania XX367 (previously G-AOVM) makes a courtesy visit to the makers factory at Filton (Bristol, England) in 1983. ... Belvedere helicopter at Filton, Bristol, England. ... Belvedere helicopter at Filton, Bristol, England. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Radial engine of a biplane. ... Bristol Mercury engine The Mercury was a 9 cylinder one_row radial aircraft engine that was developed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1925, as their Bristol Jupiter was reaching the end of its lifespan. ... Bristol Jupiter engine The Jupiter was a 9 cylinder one_row radial aircraft engine designed during World War I by Roy Fedden of Cosmos Engineering. ... Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their creditors. ... The Air Ministry was formerly a department of the United Kingdom Government, established in 1918 with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the (then newly formed) Royal Air Force. ... Sleeve valves are a way of building valves for piston engines that have a number of advantages over the more common poppet valve, used in most engines, as well as disadvantages that have precluded their widespread adoption. ... The Armstrong-Siddeley automobiles (and later aircraft engines) were an English marque manufactured from 1919 (after the company was formed in 1917 by a merger between two Coventry_based companies, Armstrong-Whitworth and Siddeley-Deasy) to 1960. ... Bristol Siddeley was a UK aero-engine manufacturer formed in 1959 from the merger of Bristol Aero Engines and Armstrong-Siddeley. ... The Rolls Royce logo Rolls-Royce is a set of several companies, all deriving from the British automobile and aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls in 1906. ...

In 1946, with the surplus capacity after WW2, the company started an offshoot, Bristol Cars, using pre-war BMW designs as the basis for a new car, the Bristol 400. The car company became independent in 1960, around the same time as the consolidation the British aircraft industry, but is still based at the Filton site. German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... Bristol Cars is a manufacturer of hand-built luxury cars, based at Filton, near Bristol, England. ... The BMW logo is a circle (known as a roundel) divided into quadrants of alternating white and light blue color. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Bristol Aeroplanes

Bristol Aeroplane designs include:

WWI types:

• Bristol Boxkite
• Bristol F.2B

inter-war and WWII types: The Bristol F.2 Fighter was a two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War flown by the Royal Flying Corps. ...

• Bristol Beaufort
• Bristol Beaufighter
• Bristol Blenheim
• Bristol Bolingbrook
• Bristol Bombay
• Bristol Brigand
• Bristol Buckingham
• Bristol Buckmaster
• Bristol Bulldog

post-war types: General description The Beaufort (Bristol Type 152) was a large torpedo bomber designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, and developed from the earlier Blenheim light bomber. ... The Beaufighter was a long-range heavy fighter modification of the Bristol Aeroplane Companys earlier Beaufort torpedo bomber design. ... The Bristol Type 142 Blenheim was a high-speed light bomber used extensively in the early days of World War II, built by Bristol Aeroplane Company. ... The Bristol Bombay was a medium bomber and troop transport aircraft flown by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. ... The Bristol Brigand was the outcome of a 1942 specification (H. 7/42) calling for a faster edition of the Beaufighter for long range torpedo work and anti-shipping strikes. ... The Bristol Buckingham was a World War II design for a medium day bomber for the RAF. In 1940, the Bristol Centaurus were working on a project called the Bristol Beaumont, essentially a bomber variant of the Beaufighter. ... The Bristol type 166 Buckmaster was an advanced trainer aircraft of the Royal Air Force. ... General History The Bristol Bulldog was a Royal Air Force (RAF) single-seat biplane fighter designed during the 1920s by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, with over three hundred Bulldogs produced, that arguably became the most famous aircraft during the RAFs inter-war period. ...

• Bristol Brabazon
• Bristol Freighter
• Bristol Britannia
• Bristol 188

helicopters: The Bristol Type 167 Brabazon was a huge airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 to fly a large number of passengers on transatlantic routes from England to the United States. ... The Bristol Freighter (Bristol Type 170) was an aircraft conceived by Wing Commander Taffy Powel who opened a fascinating and innovative chapter in British aviation. ... The Bristol Type 175 Britannia was a medium/long-range airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1952 to fly a number of air routes across the British Empire. ... Like many aircraft designed from British aircraft companies in the period just before and after the second world war, the Bristol 188 was far in advance of its time. ...

• Bristol Belvedere
• Bristol Sycamore

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Bristol Engines

Bristol Engine designs include:

original series:

• Bristol Jupiter
• Bristol Titan
• Bristol Mercury
• Bristol Pegasus
• Bristol Phoenix
• Bristol Hydra

sleeve-valve series: Bristol Jupiter engine The Jupiter was a 9 cylinder one_row radial aircraft engine designed during World War I by Roy Fedden of Cosmos Engineering. ... Bristol Mercury engine The Mercury was a 9 cylinder one_row radial aircraft engine that was developed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1925, as their Bristol Jupiter was reaching the end of its lifespan. ... Bristol Pegasus piston engine The Pegasus was a 9 cylinder one_row radial aircraft engine designed as the follow-on to the Bristol Aeroplane Companys very successful Bristol Jupiter, following lessons learned in the Mercury effort. ... The Phoenix was an adaptation of the Bristol Aeroplane Companys Pegasus engine, adapted to run on the Diesel cycle. ...

• Bristol Perseus
• Bristol Aquila
• Bristol Taurus
• Bristol Hercules
• Bristol Centaurus

turbine-based types: Bristol Perseus engine The Perseus was a nine cylinder one_row radial aircraft engine produced by the Bristol Engine Company starting in 1932. ... The Aquila was a 9-cylinder one-row radial aircraft engine produced by the Bristol Engine Company starting in 1934. ... Bristol Taurus engine The Taurus was a 14_cylinder two_row radial aircraft engine, produced by the Bristol Engine Company starting in 1936. ... Bristol Hercules engine The Hercules was a 14_cylinder two_row radial aircraft engine produced by the Bristol Engine Company starting in 1939. ... Bristol Centaurus engine The Centaurus was the ultimate development of Bristol Engine Companys series of sleeve valve radial aircraft engines, a massive 18_cylinder two_row design that eventually delivered over 3,000 hp (2. ...

• Bristol Theseus
• Bristol Proteus
• Bristol Olympus
• Bristol Orpheus
• Bristol Pegasus

Bristol Theseus engine The Theseus was the Bristol Aeroplane Companys first attempt at a gas-turbine engine design, a turboprop that delivered just over 2,000 hp (1,500 kW). ... Bristol Proteus engine The Proteus was the Bristol Aeroplane Companys first successful gas-turbine engine design, a turboprop that delivered just over 4,000 hp (3,000 kW). ... Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 The Olympus is a high-powered axial-flow turbojet, originally developed at Bristol Aero Engines, later passed to Bristol Siddeley, and finally to Rolls-Royce. ... Rolls-Royce Pegasus The Rolls Royce Pegasus is a turbofan engine manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. ...

Bristol Missiles

Bristol Engine designs include:

• Bloodhound SAM

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External links

• The Bristol Aeroplane Company (the founder's family's website)
• Bristol Aircraft and Engines
• Bristol Aircraft Engines