Subsequently, the aircraft were upgraded with Hispano Z12-17 engines ... Equipped with a Rolls-Royce Merlin 500-45 engine and ...

"The Merlin was an amazing engine. It could be developed and adapted and when aircraft needed to go higher and faster, it could go higher and faster. "It could be used in different ways and while ...

It was Rolls-Royce that designed, without government funding, the 27 litre V12 Merlin aircraft engine. Merlin powered Avro Lancasters and Supermarine Spitfires were instrumental in preserving the ...

On 27 July 1942 a lone German aircraft dropped four bombs on the vital Rolls-Royce Merlin engine factory, killing 23 people. It was Derby's most lethal air raid and took took air defences and ...