Brazil Straker Building - Fishponds | |
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| G2341. This was the original Brazil Straker building. This is where Roy Fedden worked as an engineer. Brazil Straker was the first Bristol company to be brought under Admiralty control during World War One. During 1915 it was manufacturing Rolls-Royce aero-engines. The air-cooled Mercury and Jupiter radial engines were built here. By 1918 a financial combine purchased Brazil Straker and aero-engine production was reorganised as Cosmos Engineering Company. Sometime later the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company took it over. The Avery group re-located to the Cosmos Engineering site at Lodge Causeway in 1923, and by the 1930's traded under the name of Parnall & Sons. The contracts from the Air Ministry during the Second World War meant that component parts for many kinds of aircraft were manufactured there. Sadly the building was demolished in 1992. This photograph was taken sometime during the 1970s. | |
| Publisher | Bristol Siddeley |
| Contributor | Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust |
| Creator | corporatename - Bristol Siddeley |
| Date | creation - Circa 1977 |
| Type | Photographic prints - Black and White Photograph |
| Format | dimension.W - 24 mm dimension.H - 19 mm |
| Identifier | E220983 |
| Source | Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust |
| Language | EN |
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| Coverage | Location.Creation Site - Fishponds, Bristol period - Circa 1977 |
| Rights | Rolls-Royce plc |
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