Inter-war years Bristol Aeroplane Company

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the bristol badger


by end of war, company employed on 3,000 @ production works, split between filton , brislington. products had been referred name bristol , formalized in 1920, when british , colonial liquidated , assets transferred bristol aeroplane company, ltd. during time company, acting under pressure air ministry, bought aero-engine division of bankrupt cosmos engineering company, based in bristol suburb of fishponds, form nucleus of new aero-engine operation.


there working relationship between bristol aircraft , cosmos, cosmos jupiter having been first flown in prototype bristol badger in may 1919. £15,000 bristol got cosmos design team, headed roy fedden, along small number of completed engines , tooling. although several years before bristol showed profit aero engine division, jupiter engine proved enormously successful; indeed, during inter-war period, aero-engine division more successful parent company , bristol came dominate market air-cooled radial engines. apart providing engines bristol s aircraft designs, jupiter , successors powered enormous number of aircraft built other manufacturers.



the bristol bulldog


bristol s successful aircraft during period bristol bulldog fighter, formed mainstay of royal air force (raf) fighter force between 1930 , 1937, when bulldog retired front line service. since bulldog had started life private venture rather air ministry-sponsored prototype sold other countries, , bulldogs exported to, among others, denmark, estonia, finland, , australia.


during time, bristol noted preference steel airframes, using members built high-tensile steel strip rolled flanged sections rather light alloys more used in aircraft construction. on 15 june 1935, bristol aeroplane company became public limited company. time, company had payroll of 4,200, in engine factory, , positioned take advantage of huge re-armament ordered british government in may of year. bristol s important contribution expansion of raf @ time blenheim light bomber.


in august 1938, frank barnwell killed flying light aircraft of own design; barnwell succeeded bristol s chief designer leslie frise. time war broke out in 1939, bristol works @ filton largest single aircraft manufacturing unit in world, floor area of 25 hectares (2,691,000 square feet).








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