A museum has become the custodian of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine which once powered a Spitfire, after the pilot was forced to ...

The drawings were already in America having been ... Continuous improvement was made to the Merlin engine as time passed, and it eventually produced over 2,000 hp; each succeeding modification ...

The Merlin was produced in several variants in the years leading up to and during World War II and served within the engine bays of numerous aircraft that helped turn the tide of the war.

Rolls-Royce (and Packard) built almost 150,000 27-liter Merlin V-12 engines during World War II. Many of them survived, yet none were supposed to end up in road cars. But then came a bunch of aero ...

The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine played a central role during World War 2, helping Britain defend itself against Nazi Germany. The Royal Air Force relied on the engine during the Battle of Britain as ...