Defunct Aircraft Engine Manufacturers of the United Kingdom: Bristol Aeroplane Company, Blackburn Aircraft, Napier & Son, Sunbeam

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Bristol Aeroplane Company, Blackburn Aircraft, Napier & Son, Sunbeam, Bristol Siddeley, E.N.V. Motor Syndicate, Rolls-Royce Limited, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Alvis Cars, Armstrong Siddeley, William Beardmore and Company, Wolseley Motor Company, Metropolitan-Vickers, Advance Motor Manufacturing Company, The Scott Motorcycle Company, JA Prestwich Industries, Green Engine Co, Pobjoy Airmotors, Anzani, Siddeley-Deasy, Beardmore Halford Pullinger, Coventry-Victor, De Havilland Engine Company, Power Jets, Cosmos Engineering, ADC Aircraft, Carden Aero Engines, ABC Motors, Cirrus Aero-Engines, Blackburne, Bristol Aerojet, Noel Penny Turbines. Excerpt: Sunbeam was a marque registered by John Marston Co. Ltd of Wolverhampton, England, in 1888. The company first made bicycles, then motorcycles and cars from the late 19th century until about 1936, and applied the marque to all three forms of transportation. The company also manufactured 647 aircraft during the Second World War. A Sunbeam was the first British car to win a Grand Prix race, and set a number of land speed records. The company went into receivership in 1935 and was purchased by the Rootes Group, which continued to use the Sunbeam marque. John Marston was apprenticed to the Jeddo Works of Wolverhampton as a japanner (metal lacquerer). In 1859, at the age of 23, he bought two tinplate manufacturers and set up on his own as John Marston Co. Ltd. Marston was an avid cyclist, and in 1877 set up the Sunbeamland Cycle Factory, producing bikes known as Sunbeams. Between 1899 and 1901 the company also produced a number of experimental cars, but none were offered to the market. The first production car named as a Sunbeam was introduced in 1901, after a partnership with Maxwell Maberley-Smith. The Sunbeam-Mabley design was an odd one, with seats on either side of a belt-...