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Originally Posted by tabs
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...
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I was about to say the same...
From an article:
"There was some talk throughout the war about fitting the P-38 airframe with a pair of Rolls Royce Merlin XX engines. However the War Production Board was unwilling to shut down the Lightning production for the several months it would have taken to retool for the engine swap. As a result, the Merlin project was shelved and no P-38 was ever flown fitted with Rolls Royce Merlin or Packard Merlin engines."