JET AIRCRAFT ENGINE
PLANT FOR ENGINEERING SCHOOL A Derwent Mark I turbo-jet aero engine has arrived at the Canterbury University College School of Engineering this week for the use of finalyear students. The type was used in the first Gloster Meteor aircraft to come to New Zealand. The acquisition of the engine was arranged by Mr H. F. T. Adams, senior lecturer in mechanical engineering, who was formerly first director of studies at the Lutterworth School of Gas Turbine Technology in the United Kingdom. He said yesterday that though superseded as a power unit for aircraft, the engine would be valuable to students Though overhauled by the Rolls Royce Company and packed fully assembled, the engine will not be demonstrated until a mobile test bed is constructed. On this it will be taken to an isolated locality, so that residents will not be disturbed by the noise. It will probably be used first at the beginning of next year.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25547, 15 July 1948, Page 3
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