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Power Jets Ltd
Company typeLimited company
IndustryAircraft jet engines
Founded27 January 1936
FounderSir Frank Whittle
Defunct1948
FateMerged with RAE forming NGTE Pyestock
HeadquartersRugby, Warwickshire (initially in 1936)
Lutterworth (from January 1938)
Area served
UK
Key people
James Collingwood Tinling, Sir William Hawthorne
ProductsGas turbines
ServicesGas turbine research
DivisionsWhetstone
Preserved Power Jets W.1 at the Science Museum (London)

Power Jets was a British company set up by Frank Whittle for the purpose of designing and manufacturing jet engines. The company was nationalised in 1944, and evolved into the National Gas Turbine Establishment.

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