Aero Engines
Wolseley also produced a number of aircraft engine designs, although there were no major design wins.
- Wolseley 1908 30 hp 4-cyl.
- Wolseley 1909 50 hp V-8 air-cooled
- Wolseley 1909 54 hp V-8 water-cooled 3.74" x 5.00"
- Wolseley 1911 Type B 80 hp V-8
- Wolseley 1911 Type C 60 hp V-8
- Wolseley 1912 160hp V-8
- Wolseley A.R.7 Aquarius I
- Wolseley A.R.9 Aries III
- Wolseley W.4A Python
- Wolseley W.4A Viper
- Wolseley W.4B Adder
- Wolseley Leo
- Wolseley Libra
- Wolseley Scorpio
Wolseley Aero Engines Ltd was a subsidiary formed around 1931 to design aero engines. When Wolseley Motors Limited was transferred to Morris Motors Limited on 1 July 1935 this part of its business was set aside by W R Morris (Lord Nuffield) and put in the ownership of a newly incorporated company, Wolseley Aero Engines Ltd, and remained his personal property. By 1942 the name of that company had become Nuffield Mechanizations Limited.
They were developing an advanced Wolseley radial aero engine of about 250 horsepower, but the project was abandoned in September 1936 when W R Morris got the fixed price I.T.P. (Intention to Proceed) contract papers (which would have required an army of chartered accountants) and decided to deal only with the War Office and Admiralty, not the Air Ministry (see Airspeed).
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