For the modern-day Franco-Russian company, see PowerJet.
Power Jets Ltd
Company type
Limited company
Industry
Aircraft jet engines
Founded
27 January 1936
Founder
Sir Frank Whittle
Defunct
1948
Fate
Merged with RAE forming NGTE Pyestock
Headquarters
Rugby, Warwickshire (initially in 1936) Lutterworth (from January 1938)
Area served
UK
Key people
James Collingwood Tinling, Sir William Hawthorne
Products
Gas turbines
Services
Gas turbine research
Divisions
Whetstone
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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