the throaty roar of its Merlin engine is part of the Spitfire's appeal. The development and production of the Merlin was in large part down to Rolls-Royce chairman Ernest Hives. Now Derby ...

The last Packard passenger car was built on February 9, 1942, and the vast factory was retooled to produce the Rolls-Royce ...

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 ...

First announced in May 1925, the model has enjoyed eight generations and hundreds of bespoke customisation projects to make ...

Each of the dozen Aeroboats to be built will pack a reconditioned, marinized, fuel-injected Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engine – the same 27-liter powerplant that propelled the Spitfire. With 1,100 ...

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 ...

Initially equipped with the Allison V-1710 engine, its performance was limited at altitude, leading to the crucial switch to the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. -This enhancement transformed the ...