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February 14th 04, 01:38 PM
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According to a website on PT boats that I found by Google,
the PT 7X series boats used a Packard V12 that was a direct descendant of the Lancaster Airplane engine. They made a point of saying that it wasn't a Merlin, or a Packard-Merlin. Looks like there were tanks, boats and airplanes that shared a related V12 engine. -Chuck Harris The Raven wrote: "Mike Hide" wrote in message news:b0jXb.308382$xy6.1503503@attbi_s02... Wasn't the Merlin an inline piston engine and the meteor engine a gas turbine engine.the two have to be totally dissimilar....mjh The Rolls Royce Merlin (including all license built models) was a V12 engine. Used in such aircraft as the Lancaster and P-51 Mustang. The Rover Meteor engine is a derivative of that engine and saw application in the Centurion tank. I think you're associating the name Meteor with the Gloster Meteor jet aircraft (which had turbines). 
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