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@wilburfinnigan2142 Spitfires were trouncing FW-190s. The successor, the Spiteful was 3 mph under 500mph. Keith was correct, the Alison powered Mustang was a failure to the magnificent Rolls-Royce Merlin version.
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@wilburfinnigan2142 Oh no, not again! Calum Douglas world authority on WW2 engines, wrote in a post: Claiming that Britain didn't mass produce engines properly because if they had, they would never have needed to ask Packard for help. Despite having made twice the number anyone else did (it took Packard 4 years to exceed RR annual Merlin production by the way, and all the Packard Merlin`s we used had to be modified by RR after they arrived in the UK, because to allow Packard to work as they wished to, they agreed to let Packard make huge runs of exactly the same spec engines, which were obsolete by the time they were finished and had to be modified by RR in Britain to the latest mod-spec individually after shipping).
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@wilburfinnigan2142 All airframes using RR Merlins made in North America were made at the Rolls-Royce shadow factory in Detroit.
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@wilburfinnigan2142 The British used idle US industry to boost their war arsenal, eliminating the US soup lines in the process. All paid for by British money. It gave the USA advanced engine technology, which the USA welcomed as the USA was way behind.
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@wilburfinnigan2142 Not this clown again!
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@wilburfinnigan2142 Rolls-Royce set up the Detroit Merlin shadow factory to supply British plane manufacturers. That was the idea.
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The British and French decided to use idle US industry to boost their arsenals as their own were working 24/7. RR chose the idle Packard plant as a shadow factory. Air Ministry/RR had Merlin shadow factories in: Glasgow, Crewe, Derby, Manchester and Detroit. The only activity at the idle Detroit place was the janitor and his cat doing his rounds. RR ended a number of soup lines. The French army was larger than the German army with the British BEF only 9% of allied land forces The French had more tanks than the Germans so they were doing the land work. The British focused on its air force and navy. An agreement was reached between Rolls-Royce and Packard after the fall of France in September 1940 to manufacture the Merlin under licence. That was when they needed to expand the RAF as they were fighting alone. An agreement was reached between Rolls-Royce and Packard in September 1940 to set up an additional shadow factory to manufacture the Merlin under licence, using British money to set up the plant. Packard was eager for the business and the US overall eager to get hold of advanced British engine technology.
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@beeceesp1386 Callum Douglas, an F1 engine designer and WW2 engine historian, the go to authority, author of The Great Horsepower Race. He puts the main US contribution to British engines in the machine tools they made and supplied, not any expertise they had in engines. Here is his Tweet... Surely everyone just KNOWS the good old stories about FORD laughing at the Merlin drawings and that Rolls-Royce engines were all hand built must be true ! Well this document, plus the fact there is a huge parts interchange manual which tells you which Packard part number you need to get to replace a certain Rolls-Royce part in either engine and visa versa. Of course not all parts were interchangeable, Packard did their own supercharger drive gearbox system, and used American sourced accessories like cabin air compressors and magnetos. But the British bumpkins in sheds with flat caps and files is far too much fun so it is generally preferred over pesky "archive data" to this very day.
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@beeceesp1386 The Detroit factory was one of many Merlin shadow factories. The British Air Ministry went cool on uncooperative Ford in the USA for obvious reasons, and that their quality was in question (still the same today). Hence Packard came into the frame. Re: the Merlin shadow factory in Manchester: "Very few people know that Ford had very little to do with the engineering production setup, the factory was not a Ford factory and was not full of Ford staff, the factory was built brand new for the Merlin, and funded by the Air Ministry, Ford were contracted to organize and run the new plant." - Calum Douglas The Air Ministry built a new plant next to the Ford plant. Then took control of Merlin production in quality and management, pulling down the fence merging the two whether Ford liked it or not. Ford were still producing other products like the flathead V8 used in the Universal carrier in the old part of the plant.
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@wilburfinnigan2142 What tripe! Rolls-Royce set up a Merlin shadow factory in Detroit. RR oversaw production with Packard contracted to do the manufacturing. An aim was to have as many parts as possible made in the USA to avoid using British industry which was working 24/7, and avoiding a perilous Atlantic trip sending parts. The engine were to be for Canadian production of aircraft. Calum Douglas world authority on WW2 aero engines, in a post: Claiming that Britain didn't mass produce engines properly because if they had, they would never have needed to ask Packard for help. Despite having made twice the number anyone else did (it took Packard 4 years to exceed RR annual Merlin production by the way, and all the Packard Merlin`s we used had to be modified by RR after they arrived in the UK, because to allow Packard to work as they wished to, they agreed to let Packard make huge runs of exactly the same spec engines, which were obsolete by the time they were finished and had to be modified by RR in Britain to the latest mod-spec individually after shipping).
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It was not improved in the USA. Calum Douglas world authority in WW2 engines, wrote in a post: Claiming that Britain didn't mass produce engines properly because if they had, they would never have needed to ask Packard for help. Despite having made twice the number anyone else did (it took Packard 4 years to exceed RR annual Merlin production by the way, and all the Packard Merlin`s we used had to be modified by RR after they arrived in the UK, because to allow Packard to work as they wished to, they agreed to let Packard make huge runs of exactly the same spec engines, which were obsolete by the time they were finished and had to be modified by RR in Britain to the latest mod-spec individually after shipping).
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@beeceesp1386 The British and French decided to use idle US industry to boost their arsenals as their own was working 24/7. RR chose the idle Packard plant as a shadow factory. Air Ministry/RR had shadow factories in: Glasgow, Crewe, Derby, Manchester and Detroit. The only activity at the idle Detroit place was the janitor and his cat doing his rounds. RR ended a number of soup lines. The French army was larger than the German army with the British BEF only 9% of allied forces The French had more tanks, so they were doing the land work. The British focused on its air force and navy. An agreement was reached between Rolls-Royce and the Packard after the fall of France in September 1940 to manufacture the Merlin under license. That was when they needed to expand the RAF as they were fighting alone. An agreement was reached between Rolls-Royce and Packard in September 1940 to set up an additional shadow factory to manufacture the Merlin under license. Packard was eager for the business and the US overall eager to get hold of advanced British engine technology.
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