Noel Penny Turbines
Noel Penny Turbines of Coventry.
1972 Founded by Noel Penny. Edwin Ponsford was chairman
1973 The company had recruited specialists from Rolls-Royce, Lucas and British Leyland Gas Turbines[1]
1982 In a decade the company had grown from a dozen employees to 265 of whom nearly a third, were graduates engaged in small gas turbine R and D. In 1982 the company was working for several US corporations and the US army. They also worked for Japan and Germany on different projects.[2]