A Rolls-Royce engine that powered several WWII-era aircraft, including P-51 Mustang and Hawker Hurricane, is now making headlines again. The Merlin aero engine has been mounted on a trailer for ...

One of the many highlights of the Silverstone Festival in Central England on 23-25 August 2024 will occur in the Festival Auction, where a Rolls-Royce Merlin Aero engine will be sold as one of the ...

In the 1930s, Rolls-Royce had developed one of the finest pieces of engineering ever conceived: the Merlin engine. Planners knew they had something special in the supercharged V-12 engine ...

During the Second World War, its Merlin engine equipped the legendary Spitfire, the aircraft symbol of the Battle of Britain in 1940. Rolls-Royce entered the civil aviation market in 1953, but was ...

(In Britain the Ford factory has been busy manufacturing Rolls-Royce Merlin engines for British Spitfires and Hurricanes.) More than that, his men were busy consulting with airplane experts ...