Engineering services provider Frazer-Nash has won a contract to continue its work in the development of the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers, the HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales.

The company has provided a wide range of engineering services for over 7 years, offering design advice, product development and technical assessment work for the new aircraft carriers.  The new contract will see Frazer-Nash continuing its support in all of these areas up until at least June 2010.

At any one time, Frazer-Nash has approximately fifteen staff involved on the project.  Most of their personnel are on site at the aircraft carrier project’s Bristol headquarters and also the Rosyth & Scotstoun shipyards, where different components of the carriers are being produced.  To date this has amounted to more than sixty man-years of work.

As part of the contract, Frazer-Nash will continue its high level support to the Royal Navy – including detailed design and planning of the new flight decks and hangars, through to overseeing the different design stages to ensure that the final carriers in development match the exacting requirements originally set out by the MoD.

Mark Docton, Frazer-Nash’s CVF project manager, commented: “This announcement underlines the quality of our work for the MoD, and reiterates the important role that we play in the development of the new carriers.”

“When completed, the new carriers will be the most potent the Royal Navy has ever operated.  Their development, therefore, demands the highest quality engineering support – something that we are well placed to provide with our team of technical engineers, systems engineers and naval architects.”

“In addition to the on-site support to CVF, we have separately been involved in delivering over forty other individual projects in the development of HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, and we look forward to continuing to support the MoD in the coming years.”

Commander Andy Lison, the MoD’s lead for all aspects of aviation integration, said: “Frazer-Nash have been a key supplier of engineering services to the Aircraft Carrier Alliance as we have developed the technical solution and understood the issues associated with the design of the platform.  Maintaining a high level of technical expertise in support of the ship build phase of the programme is fundamental to the success of the project and the award of this contract is testimony to this requirement.”