D. Napier and Son started business as a precision machining company in 1808. After a century of making parts for various industries, they manufactured internal combustion engines and luxury cars, before moving on to airplane engines in WW1, first as a manufacturer of other designs and then designing their own. Taken over by English Electric in 1942, the Eland was their entry in the turboprop engine market and was used on several passenger and cargo planes as well as the Fairey Rotodyne.
Rolls Royce stopped production of the Eland when they purchased the company in 1961.
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