The de Havilland Engine Company was an offshoot of the de Havilland aircraft building company, which started life in 1928 producing the famous de Havilland Gipsy aero-engine. For other uses, see De Havilland (disambiguation). ...

It went on to produce one of the early turbojet engines the de Havilland Goblin which saw service in the early post-war De Havilland Vampire fighter. The later Ghost turbojet propelled early versions of the De Havilland Comet jetliner and the De Havilland Venom fighter. Cutaway Goblin II A cutaway diagram of the internal workings of the de Havilland Goblin, as fitted to the Vampire. ... The de Havilland Vampire, or DH.100, was the second jet-engined aircraft commissioned into the Royal Air Force during World War II (the first being the Gloster Meteor), although it did not see combat in that conflict. ... The De Havilland Ghost was a turbojet engine. ... The de Havilland Comet of Britain was the worlds first commercial jet airliner. ... The de Havilland DH.112 Venom was a post- war jet single-seat fighter-bomber of the Royal Air Force. ...

The Company later developed the de Havilland Gnome turboshaft from the General Electric T58 design, but the company was absorbed into Bristol Siddeley Engines in 1961; Bristol itself subsequently became part of Rolls-Royce Limited Bristol Siddeley was a British aero-engine manufacturer formed in 1959 from the merger of Bristol Aero Engines and Armstrong-Siddeley Motors. ... Rolls-Royce Limited was a British car and aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls on 15 March 1906 and was the result of a partnership formed in 1904. ...

External links

• British Jet Engine Website