Ansty, Warwickshire
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Ansty is a village and civil parish in the Rugby Borough of Warwickshire, England, about 5 miles northeast of Coventry city centre and 7 miles south of Hinckley. Ansty is on the B4065, which used to b
The main road through Ansty
St James' Parish Church
Road bridge over the Oxford Canal
Ansty Hall
Bristol Siddeley Gamma
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The Armstrong Siddeley, later Bristol Siddeley Gamma was a family of rocket engines used in British rocketry, including the Black Knight and Black Arrow launch vehicles. They burned kerosene fuel and
Ansty, Warwickshire
…and 1953. In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Armstrong Siddeley Motors had its development plant for gas turbines and aircraft rocket motors as well as the Gamma rocket motors used in the Black Knight and Black Arrow launchers. The plant is now the Ansty engineering works of Rolls-Royce. In 2013, Rolls-Royce…
Black Knight tail showing engines
Gamma 2 rocket engine, used for the second stage
Gamma 8 rocket engine on Black Arrow 1st stage
Gamma 201 engine