Re: Rolls Royce vs. Packard:Who Built a Better Merlin?

Posted by 58L8134 On 2020/2/12 17:51:44

At a Hershey in the 1990's, while looking over a '40 Packard I struck up a brief conversation with an older gentleman. He volunteered he started his engineering career at Packard and had been assigned to the Merlin project. He was very proud of the job they had done preparing for volume production such a complex machine which had been largely low volume with a great deal of hand-fitting of components. Along came his friend, we went our separate ways, but still wonder who he was. Hershey is great for such encounters, part of the fun.

Steve