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Size doesn’t matter when it comes to the fighting spirit of the tiny merlin, a fierce parent and favoured hunting accessory ...
THE wartime effort of two Stratford companies formed by brothers Barney and Norman Joseph has been detailed in a new book.
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A museum has become the custodian of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine which once powered a Spitfire, after the pilot was forced to abandon the ...
There’s nothing like the sound of a Spitfire’s Rolls-Royce Merlin engine - and hearing it at takeoff is pure magic. I captured this iconic aircraft as it roared down the runway, with that ...
“We have many ‘star’ cars to show people including a 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom fitted with a Spitfire Merlin engine and a 1933 Phantom II originally owned by Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhi – the ...
THE most powerful Rolls-Royce ever has hit the market - with a record-breaking 650 horsepower that's unlocked by a hidden steering wheel button. The all-electric Black Badge Spectre super-coupe ...
‘We could hear the tyres squealing from here,’ said the chap from the Rolls-Royce pit-lane crew as I glided silently to a stop. So dead-pan was his delivery that I’m still not absolutely ...
The company makes a playful allusion to the way in which WWII Spitfire pilots could temporarily amp up the power output of their Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engine – via a simple ... and transport design ...
The ability to unlock extra performance is said to be inspired by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine that powered Spitfires in World War II, and allowed pilots to call on bursts of extra thrust to ...
Rolls-Royce’s latest results, which included a 13% rise in the order book for new engines, “underlined the scale of the recovery... since governments shut the skies during the pandemic”.