"Ken Duffey" wrote in message
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Meanwhile - back at RR Meteor/Merlins.........

Apparently during the Korean war a USAF Sqn of P-51's were grounded due to
a
shortage of spare parts for their Packard Merlins.

Over the next hill was an Australian army tank battalion - equipped with
British
Centurion tanks.

The Centurions had RR Meteor engines - and if they had only had a common
parts
nomenclature/numbering system, the Aussie could have supplied the Yanks
with
parts!

It is probably an apocryphal story - and certainly exagerated, but a good
one
nonetheless.

It was not until the beginning of 1952 that the Australian Army finally
received it's first Centurion tanks. These first tanks were given to 1
Armoured Regiment.

1 Armoured Regt did not serve in Korea.