NEW AIR ENGINE
NOW IN FULL-SCALE PRODUCTION.
NOTABLE PERFORMANCE
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, February 26.
A new Rolls-Royce Merlin engine— Mark 20—with a considerably better performance than its predecessors, is in full-scale production, reports “The Times” aeronautical correspondent. It is a twelve-cylinder liquid-cooled engine, with a two-speed super-charger. The low-speed super-charger gives 1,260 horse-power at 2,250 feet and the high-speed 1,175 horse-power at 21,000 feet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1942, Page 4
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71NEW AIR ENGINE Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1942, Page 4
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