Alvis Aircraft Engines
Alvis first aero-engines were licence built Gnome-Rhone radials. Their first Alvis design was the 14-cylinder Alvis Pelides radial in 1936. It and related development; the Pelides Major, Alcides, Alcides Major and the Maeonides Major engines was stopped with the start of the Second World War. The Alvis Leonides, a smaller 9 cylinder radial, continued in development during the war and was used post war in some aircraft and helicopters until production finished in 1966. In 1952, Alvis returned to 14-cylinder radials with a development of the Leonides as the Leonides Major.
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