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]
References
- NPT301 Turbojet Minijets website^
- British Gas Turbines www.gasturbineworld.co.uk, retrieved 7 June 2017^
- Ronald J. Hunt. The History of the Industrial Gas Turbine (Part 1 The First Fifty Years 1940 - 1990) www.idgte.org, The Institution of Diesel and Gas Turbine Engineers, Jan 2011, retrieved 7 June 2017