JET ENGINES FOR WARSHIPS
RESEARCH WORK IN BRITAIN ’N.Z Presss Assoe>Mi<»n -Coovrtehf > (Rec. 8.30 0.m.) LONDON. June 17 “The Ministry of Supply reveals that gas turbine engines to iet-pronel warships at high speed are being developed by a team of scientists working in conjunction with the Admiralty, to which Air Commodore Frank Whittle will give overall guidance after his return from America,” says the “Daily Express.” “The first two engines will be fitted in a destroyer and a small coastal shin for naval tests.
‘The application of jet propulsion to merchant shinpinp is being left to private enterprise. Shin turbine research is also beine carried out for the Ministry bv British Thomson Houston. Ltd at As this firm also has a special atomic energy contract it may be that work on the design of a warship turbine driven by atomic energy has already begun,”
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 6
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