Rolls-Royce: The Merlin at War

xvii, 188 pp. ...enlarged the knowledge of the vital part played in that battle by the V-12 Merlin, the aero engine which powered the Hurricane and Spitfire, the Lancaster and Mosquito, the Mustang and, in one marque or another, most of the operational aircraft of the R.A.F. in the Second World War. Tens of thousands of these engines were produced by Rolls-Royce in England and Scotland and by Packard in the United States. This book surveys the critical technical development and production of the Merlin... Drawing on its experience of Eagle manufacture in the First World War, Rolls-Royce controlled, under the British Ministry of Aircraft Production, what was one of the largest and most complex examples of high-technology mass production in the Second World War.--jacket