Bristol Type-137 Transport-Cargo Aircraft Project

[hesham]

From Putnam book,

the Bristol Type-137 was a high-wing medium transport and cargo monoplane Project of 1933,based on Type-130,
could accommodated 14 passenger,used the same wing,with a wider and deeper flat-sided fuselage and a single
fin and rudder,powered by two Pegasus engines,appeared in two variants; A & B ,also with fixed main landing gear,
no more Info is available.

 

[ArtosStark]

There is a mention of the Type 137 at the end of Dinger Aviations page on the Type 130 (https://dingeraviation.net/bristol/bombay.html)

Type 137: In the 1930s, second-hand Fokker and Ford Trimotors started to be purchased by mining companies to ferry miners into remote sites and ship out high-value ore and gems. Seeing a potential civilian market for their Type 130 Bombay design, Bristol approached the Air Ministry to see if they would mind it being offered for sale to civilian concerns. The Air Ministry declined to make it available, and having put up the money to build the prototype, they had every right to do so. Bristol decided to tweak the design to better suit the civilian "bush-country" market, just enough so that it was no longer considered a Type 130. The first obvious step was to remove the front and tail turrets. This enabled them to give their new design a sleeker nose, but without a tail turret there was no longer any need for twin rudders, so a single fin was to be fitted. Mated to a slightly thinner fuselage this gave the aircraft a much more streamlined and attractive look. The most innovative part of the aircraft was the undercarriage. This was enclosed in a "trouser" fairing, but the wheels could be made to partially retract up into this fairing. This meant that once parked up on an airfield, the fuselage could be lowered so that it almost touched the ground. Then a whole section of the fuselage would open downward to form a ramp to enable easy loading without the need for any ramps or airstairs equipment on the airfield itself. The project never got beyond the design stage.

Bristol Type 137