Rolls Royce Meteor V 2 engine from a Centurion tank

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Chuck Harris wrote:
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

Liberty, not Lancaster. No such engine as a Lancaster, so
far as I know, and the Lancaster aeroplane was powered
by Merlins (most marks) or Bristol Hercules.

One Motor Torpedo Boat (the solitary F-type Fairmile)
got four Hercules instead of the usual Packards, bus
tthe power drain of the cooling fans just about absorbed
the power increase. It might have been different if she'd
got Centaurus, as planned.

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.

Certainly most British cruiser tanks (and the Valentine and
Churchill infantry tanks) had Liberty-derived V12s. Can't
remember whether the shift to the Meteor was with the Cromwell
or the Comet (Cromwell, I think - the related Centaur certain;y
had a Nuffield Liberty)

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In article b0jXb.308382$xy6.1503503@attbi_s02,
Mike Hide wrote:
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 was a V12 piston engine, as was the (directly
derived from the Merlin) Rover Meteor tank engine.
The Gloster Meteor aeroplane was pwered variously by Rolls-Royce
Welland or Derwent, Halford H1 (De Havilland Goblin) or Metrovick
M2 turbojets or - in one case - Rolls-Royce Trent turboprops.

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"Time has stopped, says the Black Lion clock
and eternity has begun" (Dylan Thomas)

"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


You have misunderstood I fear.

The Rolls Royce Meteor was a derivative of the Merlin inline
piston engine abd was used in armoured fighting vehicles

The GLOSTER Meteor used various engines including
Rolls Royce Derwents

Keith

"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"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


You have misunderstood I fear.

The Rolls Royce Meteor was a derivative of the Merlin inline
piston engine abd was used in armoured fighting vehicles

Called the Meteor Mark four B
The GLOSTER Meteor used various engines including
Rolls Royce Derwents

What he said

Keith