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Look to the skies and trace the history of aeroengines from the 19th century to the near present with this globally significant range of engines, from steam-powered to Concorde supersonic.

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Merlin 45 Aeroplane Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

Rolls-Royce Avon 100 Turbine Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1950

Hercules 264 Radial Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1953

Derwent V aircraft engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1946; 1946

De Havilland 4-Blade Propeller

Aircraft Propulsion

1961-1996

Olympus 201 jet engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1960

9-Cylinder Leonides 173 Radial Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

c. 1936

Axial-flow compressor

Aircraft Propulsion

1939

Rolls-Royce Merlin Mk 22 Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1946

Sectioned F2/3 Jet Aircraft Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

c.1948

F2/2 axial-flow compressor

Aircraft Propulsion

1942

Three blade propeller

Aircraft Propulsion

1935-1950

W2/700 Gas Aircraft Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1941

Ramjet component

Aircraft Propulsion

1958

Ramjet

Aircraft Propulsion

1958

F2/1 jet engine

Aircraft Propulsion

Model aircraft engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1952

Bristol ‘Centaurus’ sleeve-valve radial 18-cylinder aero engine, part-sectioned, by The Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited, Bristol, Somerset, England, 1942-1950

Bristol 'Centaurus' sleeve-valve aero engine, c 1940s.

Aircraft Propulsion

1942-1950

Exhaust valve, Merlin 24 engine

Aircraft Propulsion

Power jets (Whittle) W2/700 Turbojet engine 1944.

Aircraft Propulsion

Nakajima ‘Homare’, air-cooled twin-row 18 cylinder radial aero-engine, by Nakajima Aircraft Company, Japan, 1943-1945

Nakajima ‘Homare’, air-cooled twin-row 18 cylinder radial aero-engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1943-1945

Jet-X rocket engine for model aircraft

Aircraft Propulsion

Photograph: Gondola of Airship, showing Sunbeam Motor Car Co engine

Aircraft Propulsion

150 H.P. B.R.I. engine No. 433 W.D. No. 36903

Aircraft Propulsion

Jet-X rocket engine for model aircraft

Aircraft Propulsion

Fixed-pitch propeller

Aircraft Propulsion

1936

Sectioned Revolution Counter MkV

Aircraft Propulsion

Tin containing wick for Jetex rocket motor

Aircraft Propulsion

Piston, complete with gudgeon pin and cylinder rings, for Napier ‘Lion’ aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1917-1925

Component from the De Havilland spectre rocket engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1954-1958

Connecting rod from Rolls-Royce Merlin 24

Aircraft Propulsion

Photograph: Interior of Airship Gondola, showing details of engine installation

Aircraft Propulsion

Photograph: 300 H.P. 12-cylinder "Cossack" engine

Aircraft Propulsion

Avro Lancaster Propeller Tip Memorabilia

Aircraft Propulsion

1945

Fuel filter, for Beardmore Heavy Oil diesel engine, from Airship R. 101

Aircraft Propulsion

1928

W.1 Jet Propulsion Whittle Engine.

W.1 Jet Propulsion Whittle Engine.

Aircraft Propulsion

AMS Thomson-Bennet Magneto with hand drive

Aircraft Propulsion

Rolls-Royce Merlin prop shaft end protector

Aircraft Propulsion

Master rod with two auxiliary rods, for Napier ‘Lion’ aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1917-1925

E.N.V. Aero-engine type D (40hp), V8 cylinder, (incomplete), E. N. V. Motor Syndicate Limited, Willesden, Middlesex, England, 1910-1911. The engine’s cast-iron cylinders machined inside and out, have electrically deposited copper water jackets. The crankshaft is supported in six ball-bearings, with a double thrust race at the propeller end to take thrust in both directions. The side valves are operated by a hollow camshaft working through hardened steel balls at the bottom of each tappet. Lubrication is forced fed by a pump actuated by an eccentric on the crankshaft. Used in 1910, by Harold Hume Piffard, when he flew his flies 'Humming Bird' aircraft from Shoreham Airport, Shoreham, Sussex, England.

E.N.V. Aero-engine type D (40hp), V8 cylinder, (incomplete)

Aircraft Propulsion

Piston head, Merlin 24 engine

Aircraft Propulsion

Packet containing fuel for Jetex rocket motor

Aircraft Propulsion

Swash-plate axial aero engine, designed by John Wooler and made by the Wooler Motor Cycle Company (1919) Limited, Middlesex, England, 1947

Swash-plate axial aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1947

Magneto Port Type ZH6 No. 2090658, for 230 H.P. Benz Aero engine No. 33.278

Aircraft Propulsion

1926

WW2 aircraft propeller

Aircraft Propulsion

1939-45

Ford tool check token

Aircraft Propulsion

Redrup 1000 Horsepower Aero Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1953

RB211-22B Jet Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1973

Jetex JX32 rocket motor

Aircraft Propulsion

Turbojet, six-stage axial flow compressor, single stage turbine, Westinghouse model-19A ‘Yankee’ aero engine: original outline design by Dr. Stewart Way at Westinghouse Research Laboratories and detailed design by Westinghouse steam turbine division and built by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, United States of America, 1943. The Westinghouse model-19A ‘Yankee’ was the first jet engine to be designed and built in the United States of America.

Westinghouse Turbo-jet model-19A 'Yankee'

Aircraft Propulsion

1943

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