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Re: [Tigers] Merlin Engines

To: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Merlin Engines
From: Jeff Howarth <jeff@v8tiger.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:50:39 +0100
You have of course seen the Merlin engined tiger :


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/kbd23c/v24prototype.jpg


lol

Jeff

In message <20080422153730.C7527187651@autox.team.net>, Marc James Small 
<marcsmall@comcast.net> writes
>At 10:16 AM 4/22/2008, Tod Brown wrote:
> >"they were installed on P-51 Mustangs among other aircraft"
> >
> >Yeah, like Spitfires and Hurricanes and even Lancasters.  What amazing
> >pieces of machinery.  There is one at the Owls Head Transportation
> >Museum not far from where I live.
> >
>
>
>Well, the Rolls-Royce Merlin was never installed
>in a production P-51.  The Mustangs had the
>Packard version of the Merlin which differed in a
>number of ways from the RR original.
>
>Marc
>
>
>msmall@aya.yale.edu
>Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir!
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