[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by claytonx

I had a uncle called Tom Parsons lived in Talbot Ave, he died in 2002. I called on him once or twice a week, he used to say to me can you hear that noise they are testing the engines down at English Electric. I could understand as he was 97.

My father started at the Bristol Aero Engine Factory in Clayton in 1939 as a Tool Setter.
The engines tested at that factory were Bristol Radial Engines, every engine manufactured their during the war, had to be tested, before it left the factory.
Some years ago I saw sereral Bristol Radial Engines in a musem in Edinburg, some had cut away sections to show how they worked.
English Electric did not take over that factory until after the war, and those engines were no longer needed.