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Originally Posted by Yorkie
Actually the P38 used the American Allison 1710 engine and not the Merlin. That said, Rolls Royce were forced to create whole new drawing packages for Packard to manufacture the Merlin as Packard's tolerances were much tighter then Rolls Royce's. Packard - The American Rolls Royce. Your Dad had skills
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Really, what you do not know is that they tried to substitute the Merlin engine for the Allison...thus I said PROTOTYPE. In the end it did not work. My Dad worked on that project.
Dad used to tell me that sometimes he would walk through the 2nd floor of the Packard Plant on East Grand Blvd where they would assemble the custom bodied cars...