Jet engine identification

[foxfire]

I was at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition recently and came across this elderly looking jet engine as one of the exhibits.  The engine is upside down but I was just able to read the plate attached to it which said Rolls Royce. It's by an artist called Roger Hiorns, was called "Untitled - jet engine, anti-depressants and youth" in the exhibition catalogue and could be yours for £95,000!

Anyone know what it came from?

[chrisb]

Nimbus from a Wasp or Scout perhaps?

[zz]

I came up with the same answer (thanks to Google admittedly) but I sent your picture to a mate who works for Rolls Royce at Derby.
He instantly came back with Rolls-Royce Nimbus turboshaft from Wasp or Scout

[foxfire]

Aug 7, 2022 19:26:18 GMT chrisb said:

Nimbus from a Wasp or Scout perhaps?

It looks like you're spot on chrisb and zz !  This Wikipedia page shows it the right way up.  I wonder how much the 'artist' paid for it - and, no, it isn't now gracing my front room!

[graham]

Seems he's very much into aircraft and is renown for burying entire planes in various locations. It also said that he created a sculpture in the US a few years ago, commissioned by some faculty in Chicago that used " two engines from an early 60s high altitude spy-plane" which makes me think of a U-2.

[chrisb]

Interesting "disk brake" arrangement on the back of what I assume is the gearbox. (last photo)

[davebasing]

Slightly off topic but back in 2005 during a visit to the show at Zeltweg in Austria it was necessary to go round the back of the airfield at Graz to see a stored Draken. In a park there was this exhibit which included the fin of a Canadian AF Sabre (last digit of the serial missing), bits of a Cessna and other assorted parts. Apparently its art (but not as we know it Jim).

Picture 107 by dave tompkins, on Flickr