rolls royce started making aero- engines in 1914.
when did rolls royce start making aero- engines?
1914
in 1907, charles rolls, whose interests had turned increasingly to flying, tried unsuccessfully to persuade royce and the other directors to design an aero engine. when world war i broke out in august 1914, rolls-royce (and many others) were taken by surprise. as a manufacturer of luxury cars, rolls-royce was immediately vulnerable, and claude johnson thought the bank would withdraw its overdraft facility on which rolls-royce depended at that time. nevertheless, believing that war was likely to be short-lived the directors initially decided not to seek government work making aero engines. however, this position was quickly reversed and rolls-royce was persuaded by the war office to manufacture fifty air-cooled v8 engines under licence from renault. meanwhile, the royal aircraft factory asked rolls-royce to design a new engine. despite initial reluctance, they agreed, and during 1915, developed rolls-royce's first aero engine, the twelve-cylinder eagle. this was quickly followed by the smaller six-cylinder hawk, the falcon and, just before the end of the war, the larger condor.
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section::::chronological list.





























bullet::::- rolls-royce eagle (v-12)





























bullet::::- rolls-royce hawk





























bullet::::- rolls-royce falcon





























bullet::::- rolls-royce condor





























bullet::::- rolls-royce eagle xvi (x-16)





























bullet::::- rolls-royce kestrel





























bullet::::- rolls-royce buzzard





























bullet::::- rolls-royce goshawk





























bullet::::- rolls-royce r





























bullet::::- rolls-royce peregrine





























bullet::::- rolls-royce merlin





























bullet::::- rolls-royce exe





























bullet::::- rolls-royce vulture





























bullet::::- rolls-royce crecy





























bullet::::- rolls-royce griffon





























bullet::::- rolls royce eagle (h-24)





























bullet::::- rolls-royce pennine





























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bullet::::- gunston, bill. "world encyclopedia of aero engines". cambridge, england. patrick stephens limited, 1989.
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