The Rolls-Royce Merlin was the pinnacle of piston engine design in the 1940s. This particular engine was used in Fairey Fulmar I, Serial No N1926, during the days of the Battle of Britain in 1940.

Inspired by the Spitfire fighter plane, the Aeroboat packs aircraft-inspired switchgear ... fuel-injected Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engine – the same 27-liter powerplant that propelled the Spitfire.

head of corporate heritage at Rolls-Royce, said: "The Merlin was an amazing engine. It could be developed and adapted and when aircraft needed to go higher and faster, it could go higher and faster.

2A, and Handley Page H.P.12 O/400.History buffs might also recall that later Rolls-Royce developed the Merlin engine that ...

For this list, we'll only be focusing on passenger car engines. Rolls-Royce's history also includes lots of aircraft engines ... to feature a BMW engine, the V12 BMW M73 engine on the top-trim ...

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 ...

It was Rolls-Royce that designed, without government funding, the 27 litre V12 Merlin aircraft engine. Merlin powered Avro Lancasters and Supermarine Spitfires were instrumental in preserving the ...

An engine fault that grounded planes at British Airways and other airliners will take "some years" to fix, Rolls-Royce has said. The aerospace giant said parts in its Trent 1000 engines were ...