Jetex

Jetex was developed in 1947, by Wilmot, Mansour & Company Ltd of Southampton, which had started operations in a decommissioned hangar at RAF Beaulieu.

[1] The first motor was demonstrated in early 1948 and was available to the public in June 1948, when Aeromodeller magazine featured Jetex power on its front cover.

[2] Jetex power made a big impact in the late 1940s and early 1950s, allowing new sorts of models, scale and duration, to be designed.

During the 1960s, Jetex propellant pellets found another use by AP Films/Century 21, in their 'Supermarionation' TV series, when they were fitted to the undersides of miniature ground vehicles to emit jets of gas resembling dust trails.

Ron Baddorf speculated that the development of radio control and the increasing reliability and power of diesel motors caused a lack of interest in "the little Jetex".

They used standard Jetex fuel and had a safety pressure release at the front in the form of a disc against a pre-tensioned coil spring.