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Originally Posted by Flakmann
I`ve recently read that 54,000 Bristol `Hercules` sleeve valved radial engines were made at Bristol`s `Accrington` factory.
That`s an impressive number. If production started say in 1940, when do you reckon the production run ended?  |
Think that numbers way off the mark for the Clayton factory Flakmann. My reading tells me a total of 57,400 were produced. As Retlaw says there was indeed some engine production there, I remember the engine test sheds down on the Rishton side of the site, derelect in my apprenticeship days. But the production of these engines was spread across a variety of UK sites.
The works produced more airframe sections and assemblies in the main for the war effort as a "shadow factory". Production being shared with English Electric at Preston, Fairey Aviation at Stockport and Rootes at Speke near Liverpool.