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  • Thumbnail for D. Napier & Son
    D. Napier & Son Limited was a British engineering company best known for its luxury motor cars in the Edwardian era and for its aero engines throughout...
    31 KB (3,990 words) - 19:48, 8 November 2023
  • Robert D. Napier (1821 – May 1885) was a Scottish engineer, and the youngest son of David Napier (marine engineer). Educated in Liverpool and London,...
    3 KB (282 words) - 14:52, 23 November 2023
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    The Napier Sabre is a British H-24-cylinder, liquid-cooled, sleeve valve, piston aero engine, designed by Major Frank Halford and built by D. Napier & Son...
    24 KB (2,898 words) - 08:48, 2 April 2024
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    The Napier Lion is a 12-cylinder, petrol-fueled 'broad arrow' W12 configuration aircraft engine built by D. Napier & Son from 1917 until the 1930s. A number...
    13 KB (1,216 words) - 22:01, 11 April 2024
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    used in marine and locomotive applications, designed and produced by D. Napier & Son. Unusually, the cylinders were disposed in a three-bank triangle...
    17 KB (2,173 words) - 08:29, 10 April 2024
  • Napier may refer to: Look up Napier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. D. Napier & Son, a British engineering company Napier (company), Canadian developer...
    2 KB (334 words) - 23:12, 18 December 2023
  • Napier, 1st Baronet, of Punknoll (1642–1700), English lawyer and politician Robert D. Napier (1821–1885), Scottish engineer Sir Robert Surtees Napier...
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    single-seat racing monoplane developed in the 1940s. It was conceived by D. Napier & Son Ltd. and built by the Heston Aircraft Company. The purpose of this...
    9 KB (1,000 words) - 20:40, 27 March 2024
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    The Napier Nomad is a British diesel aircraft engine designed and built by Napier & Son in 1949. They combined a piston engine with a turbine to recover...
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    Deltic, an opposed-piston eighteen-cylinder diesel engine created by D. Napier & Son which was used for a variety of applications. The BelAZ 75600 and...
    4 KB (267 words) - 18:59, 17 July 2023
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    The Napier Naiad is a British turboprop gas-turbine engine designed and built by D. Napier & Son in the late 1940s. It was the company's first gas turbine...
    4 KB (254 words) - 11:03, 13 December 2021
  • to creative differences. It was stationed in what was originally the D. Napier & Son factory in Acton, London and had 250 crew members from 15 different...
    5 KB (284 words) - 22:37, 29 October 2023
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    Charles Lewis Napier (April 12, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an American actor known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and...
    35 KB (2,060 words) - 11:14, 25 April 2024
  • effectively an improved version of the Class 50 16CSVT power unit. Napier Deltic (Makers D. Napier and Son were an English Electric subsidiary company from 1942)...
    36 KB (3,953 words) - 21:47, 13 March 2024
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    John Napier of Merchiston (/ˈneɪpiər/; 1 February 1550 – 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician...
    31 KB (4,077 words) - 15:08, 24 April 2024
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    Napier (/ˈneɪpiər/ NAY-pee-ər; Māori: Ahuriri) is a city on the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Hawke's Bay region...
    58 KB (6,170 words) - 12:17, 16 April 2024
  • Joyce Napier (born June 15, 1958) is a Canadian television journalist. Formerly a correspondent for the news division of Société Radio-Canada, the French-language...
    6 KB (561 words) - 15:32, 1 March 2024
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    The Napier Gazelle is a turboshaft helicopter engine that was manufactured by D. Napier & Son in the mid-1950s. In 1961 production was nominally transferred...
    6 KB (520 words) - 01:02, 22 September 2023
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    major Spanish defence companies in the guided weapons sector. As AMS had R&D assets located in California, MBDA also managed to acquire development and...
    12 KB (998 words) - 11:21, 5 April 2024
  • liquid-cooled aero engine built by the British engine company D. Napier & Son. The Cub was the only Napier 'X' engine design. First flown on 15 December 1922 in...
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