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Originally Posted by Retlaw
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.
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I don't think there were any radial engines used post war, by that time RR were producing the Griffon (the successor to the Merlin), and were transitioning into jet engines which I think were built in Derby.
There was a cutaway radial at the RAF College which you could turn over by a hand crank - quite impressive.