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Unknown jet engine.

16 Feb 2017 10:18 #1 by WILLIAMARNOLD
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Coventry University Technology Centre, which is partially built on the site of the Rolls Royce Parkside works Coventry, has installed this Jet engine as a landscape feature.Has anyone any ideas as to what it might have come from?
Long ago and far away

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16 Feb 2017 10:54 #2 by IanDDavidson
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I believe its an early turobshaft engine.

Parkside was originally an Armstrong Siddeley factory so:

I am thinking it may be an Armstrong Siddeley Python prototype, but still searching for the evidence
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16 Feb 2017 23:38 #3 by PJH
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I think you're right. Turn the one in the linked photo round by 180 degrees (i.e. left to right) and there are enough similarities to convince me.

www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Lincolns-RAF/Python
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