Did French turbine orders keep Parsons in business?

Did French interwar orders help keep Parsons afloat until British rearmament?

They helped, but steady Royal Navy orders and frequent replacement machinery were more important to sustaining Parsons and the turbine industrial base.

French and other foreign orders helped Parsons through the interwar downturn. Royal Navy demand was nevertheless the more important and dependable support. British ships received replacement turbines during major refits with striking regularity, sustaining skilled labor and production capacity. Machinery wear gave the navy a defensible reason to place those orders in a way that armor manufacture could not easily imitate.