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Napier Power Heritage Trust The Official Website dedicated to the history ofD. Napier & Son Ltd Welcome to the website of the Napier Power Heritage Trust.This website is currently under re-construction so please bear with us.It is waiting for the addition of a lot more information, photographs and.
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Napier Deltic
Napier Deltic DevelopmentThere is a huge following for the Napier Deltic engine especially in railway locomotives. The next few pages reveal a bit more about the many versions of the Deltic engine design that existed. In time our Blog will cover the appli
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The Napier Scorpion - Napier's Last Record Breaker
On 28th August 1957, Napier's Chief Test Pilot, Mike Randrup, flying English Electric Canberra WK163 fitted with a Napier 'Double Scorpion' aircraft rocket engine, reached an altitude of 70,310, beating the previous record, also held by a Canberra, by mor
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The Napier Sabre Chin Radiator
When the Hawker Typhoon aircraft was being developed Sidney Camm and his team had to find a way to efficiently cool the Napier Sabre engine. Overheating had plagued the Sabre throughout the engine's development until the engine design 'challenges', so ver
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Napier and Martin Baker
In 1934 the Martin-Baker Company designed a small cheap two-seater mono wing aircraft which exploited a simple highly ingenious method of construction. It used round section thin gauge steel tubing throughout the structure and was skinned with aluminium.
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PL4 - A Bigger and Faster Boat for Shell
This is an edited article originally from 'This is Napier' No.5 1959 During 1957 the Compania Shell de Venezuela took delivery of three high-speed passenger launches for service on Lake Maracaibo between land bases and oil rigs up to 40 miles offshore. Th
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Napier Sabre Annular Radiator
Both the Hawker Tempest and Typhoon aircraft featured an instantly identifiable and large 'chin' radiator. This was because the aircraft required sufficient airflow to cool the large and powerful Napier Sabre engine. However the "cooling drag" created by
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The Napier Sabre Momentum Air Filter
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