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.
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]