Essential and Dispensible WW2 aircraft.

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No, they were mass-produced at several factories in Britain, notably
Trafford Park in Manchester and Hillingdon outside Glasgow as well as
the original Rolls-Royce production lines at Derby and Crewe. The
Derby works spent considerable time on R&D which involved disturbing
volume production, but this was not true of the other sites.

And Ford of England.



Packard certainly made modifications to the engine to account for the
use of US anciliary equipment such as coolant pipe clips and pump
drives - well, at least after delivery of the first batch of them to
Britain without that equipment.

Also carberetors and IIRC magnetos, and US standard nuts and bolts.