Cosmos Engineering was a company that manufactured aeroengines in a factory in Fishponds, Bristol during WW1. Sir Roy Fedden, the companies principal designer, developed the 14-cylinder radial Mercury engine during this period. Sir Roy Fedden was an engineer who designed most of Bristol Engine Companys successful aircraft engine designs. ...

The Company was taken over by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1920. Operations then moved to a former flying school located on the northern edge of Filton Aerodrome. Bristol Aeroplane Company logo The Bristol Aeroplane Company (formerly British and Colonial Aeroplane Company) was a major British aircraft company which, in 1959, merged with several major British aircraft companies, to become the British Aircraft Corporation and later still part of British Aerospace, now BAE Systems. ... Filton is a town in South Gloucestershire, England, on the northern outskirts of Bristol. ...