Noel Penny Turbines was a British company that produced small[1] jet engines, most notably the Noel Penny NPT301.[2] It was established in Coventry in 1972 by Noel Penny, a former designer and chief engineer from Rover Gas Turbines in Solihull. The company employed hundreds of engineers at its works at Siskin Drive, Tollbar End in Coventry over a period of two decades. It eventually went into receivership in 1991, with the rights to the engine designs being sold off.[3][4]
In the 1970s, Noel Penny Turbines undertook secretive contract work for the American company, Caterpillar Inc. in the design of engines for heavy vehicles and trucks.[5]
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- ^ "NPT301 Turbojet". Minijets website.
- ^ "British Gas Turbines". www.gasturbineworld.co.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ Hunt, Ronald J. (January 2011). "The History of the Industrial Gas Turbine (Part 1 The First Fifty Years 1940 - 1990)" (PDF). www.idgte.org. The Institution of Diesel and Gas Turbine Engineers. p. 22. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ Bagot-Cob, Martin (10 June 2013). "Turbine pioneer dies aged 87". Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ Mortimer, John (2015). The 'nearly' engine: gas turbines in vehicles (2nd ed.). Milton Keynes: J Mortimer. ISBN 9781326177072. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
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