variants of the Spitfire and the Mustang share an engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin (the P-51 used a licensed copy of the Merlin built by Packard). The Merlin was produced in several variants in the ...

One of the many highlights of the Silverstone Festival in Central England on 23-25 August 2024 will occur in the Festival Auction, where a Rolls-Royce Merlin Aero engine will be sold as one of the ...

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 ...

During the Second World War, its Merlin engine equipped the legendary Spitfire, the aircraft symbol of the Battle of Britain in 1940. Rolls-Royce entered the civil aviation market in 1953, but was ...