Clerget-Blin (full name being ''Société Clerget-Blin et Cie'') was a French precision engineering company formed in 1913 by the engineer and inventor

Pierre Clerget Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

and industrialist Eugène Blin. In 1939, the company was absorbed into the ''Groupe d'étude des moteurs à huile lourde'' (GEHL; "Diesel Engine Study Group"), which was further merged into SNECMA in 1947.

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The Clerget-Blin company mainly produced aircraft engines, their successful rotary engine designs were also built in Britain by companies such as Gwynnes Limited, Ruston Proctor and Gordon Watney, to increase the output in the times of World War I.Lumsden 2003, p.133.

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* Gunston, Bill. ''World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines''. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. * Lumsden, Alec. ''British Piston Engines and their Aircraft''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. . {{Clerget aeroengines Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of France Manufacturing companies established in 1913 1913 establishments in France Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1947 1947 disestablishments in France

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