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    The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 27-litre (1,650 cu in) capacity. Rolls-Royce designed the engine and first...
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    Merlin is a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX for use on its Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles. Merlin engines use RP-1 and...
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    Packard V-1650 Merlin is a version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine, produced under license in the United States by the Packard Motor Car Company...
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    except for the engine, a Merlin 266. The Merlin 266 was the Merlin 66 and was built under licence in the USA by the Packard Motor Company. The "2" was added...
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    which was then the owner of the Eye; Tussauds was merged with Blackstone's Merlin Entertainments and disappeared as an entity. British Airways continued its...
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    Packard Motor Car Company converted to 100% war production. During World War II, Packard again built airplane engines, licensing the Merlin engine from...
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    August 1940 drawings of the Merlin XX were sent to the Packard Motor Car Company and used as the basis for the Packard Merlin 28. Bridgeman 1998, pp. 281–283...
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    Rolls-Royce Limited (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
    its engine a Merlin engine built by Packard under licence. Over 160,000 Merlin engines were produced, including over 30,000 by the Ford Motor Company at...
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  • after the fire, Dodd sourced a Merlin engine from a Boulton Paul Balliol training aircraft. The engine drives a General Motors TH400 automatic transmission...
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    Gasoline (redirect from Motor spirit)
    different types of motor. Tetraethyl lead and other lead compounds are not used in modern automotive gasoline, except in aviation, off-road motor vehicles, and...
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    airframes. In the United States, the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine was produced under license by Packard Motor Car Company, which was used in the P-51 Mustang...
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    Bentley (redirect from Bentley Motors)
    Bentley Motors Limited is a British designer, manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs. Headquartered in Crewe, England, the company was founded...
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    The Geneva International Motor Show is an annual auto show held in March in the Swiss city of Geneva. The show is hosted at the Palexpo, a convention...
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    the Nuffield Organization in 1938 and was merged into the British Leyland Motor Corporation in 1968. In July 1969 British Leyland announced the immediate...
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    Supermarine Spitfire variants powered by early model Rolls-Royce Merlin engines mostly utilised single-speed, single-stage superchargers. The British Supermarine...
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    an American industrialist and business magnate. As founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for...
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    AEC Swift (redirect from AEC Merlin)
    single-deck bus Commercial Motor 2 August 1968 Gone for a song LTMerlins Commercial Motor 4 February 1977 The London Transport Merlins and Swifts Ian's Bus...
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  • manufacture complicated parts (notably the crankshafts) of the Rolls-Royce Merlin in the US, but negotiations with Packard stalled because the company insisted...
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    The Ford Motor Company is an American automaker, the world's fifth largest based on worldwide vehicle sales. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of...
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    München Mü13 Merlin and Akaflieg München Mü13 Atalante were gliders designed and built in Germany from 1935. A motor-glider version of the Merlin was converted...
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    with the UK Armed Forces, where it is known as the 'Merlin'. The Merlin Mk4 or 'Commando Merlin' is designed to carry up to twenty-four troops seated...
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    A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive...
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    Ford Motor Company Limited, trading as Ford of Britain, is a British wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Technologies Limited (formerly called Blue Oval Holdings)...
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    one of the most successful light sporting cars produced by the British motor industry in the inter war period.[citation needed] It was made by the Riley...
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    a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine producing 1,030 hp (768 kW). It was strong enough and adaptable enough to use increasingly powerful Merlins, and in later...
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    V-1710 Engines" (PDF). Allison Division, General Motors Corporation. Retrieved 5 September 2020. "Merlin 61, 65 & V-1650-3 Power Curves. R.D.E. 66-41"....
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    Perhaps the most famous example of this design is the legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, a 27-litre (1649 in3) 60° V12 engine used in, among others, the...
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  • Outside of curling, McKee was employed in the parts department by Merlin Motors. Mlazgar, Brian; Stoffel, Holden (2007). Saskatchewan Sports: Lives...
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    co-operation between Leyland Motors and Rolls-Royce who between them in 1941 had suggested that a specialised de-rated version of the Merlin aero-engine would be...
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  • engines were equipped with this system. Some versions of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine used in the British Supermarine Spitfire used the Coffman system...
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