Clerget-Blin Explained

Clerget, Blin et Cie
Fate:Merged with SNECMA
Foundation:18 August 1913
Defunct:1 January 1947
Industry:Aerospace engineering
Key People:Pierre Clerget (Designer)
Products:Aircraft engines

Clerget-Blin (full name being Société Clerget-Blin et Cie) was a French precision engineering company formed in 1913 by the engineer and inventor Pierre Clerget and industrialist Eugène Blin. In 1939, the company was absorbed into the Groupe d'étude des moteurs à huile lourde (GEHL; "Diesel Engine Study Group"), which was further merged into SNECMA in 1947.

Products

See main article: Clerget aircraft engines. The Clerget-Blin company mainly produced aircraft engines. Their successful rotary engine designs were also built in Britain by companies such as Gwynnes Limited, Ruston Proctor, and Gordon Watney, to increase production during World War I.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Lumsden 2003, p.133.