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Merlin: The Power Behind the Spitfire, Mosquito and Lancaster: The Story of the Engine That Won the Battle of Britain and WWII by Graham Hoyland (Paperback, 2021)

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The most iconic planes of WWII, the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, DeHavilland Mosquito and the Avro Lancaster, were all powered by one engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin. The story of the Merlin is one of British ingenuity at its height, of artistry and problem-solving that resulted in a war-winning design. Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day and the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Britain, Merlin is the extraordinary story of the development of the Rolls-Royce engine that would stop Hitler from invading Britain and carry the war to the very heart of Germany. The story of the Merlin engine encompasses the history of powered flight, from the ingenuity of the Wright Brothers to the horrors of World War I, and from the first crossing of the Atlantic to the heady days of flying in the 1920s. There is also the extraordinary story of the Schneider Trophy - an international contest wherein nations poised on the precipice of war competed for engineering excellence in the name of progress. And at the heart of this story are the glamourous lives of the pilots, many of whom died in their pursuit of speed; the engineers, like Henry Royce of Rolls-Royce, who sketched the engine that would win WWII in the sand of his local beach; and perhaps most importantly the Lady Lucy Houston who after the Wall Street Crash singlehandedly funded the development of the engine and the iconic Spitfire. Never was so much owed by so many to so few - and without the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, the few would have been powerless.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780008359300
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15049031265

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Author
Graham Hoyland
Publication Name
Merlin: The Power Behind the Spitfire, Mosquito and Lancaster: The Story of the Engine That Won the Battle of Britain and WWII
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology, Government, Evolution, History
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
320g

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Graham Hoyland
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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by tonalrecession01 Jul, 2022
Pilot Magazine: Thoroughly researched, salted with wit and written in the best professional style by an author who is both knowledgeable and enthusias
Pilot Magazine: Thoroughly researched, salted with wit and written in the best professional style by an author who is both knowledgeable and enthusiastic about his subject, Merlin paints a finer, more detailed and complete portrait of the aero engine and the people who made it than almost any other single volume on the subject. Indeed, you would have to have read widely to find much of the ground covered by Graham Hoyland familiar – and even if you have and do, there will be new discoveries here in a story told in entertainingly meandering fashion, involving one fascinating digression after another. Much of the early part of the book is devoted to Henry Royce, the engineer responsible for the company’s genius, not in inventing things, but in developing and refining them. From Charles Rolls and Claude Johnson (‘the hyphen in Rolls-Royce’) came the connection with customers and people in influential positions that gave the company such advantage. Thus, it was that R-R armoured cars came to be used by the British Army (and notably T E Lawrence, the subject of one of those many illuminating digressions) and the company’s developments of German and US engine designs won out against the technical brilliance of competitors like Napier. As Hoyland explains, the Merlin really did represent a triumph of tireless, thorough development over poor initial design (unlike some of Rolls-Royce’s failures, including the ‘X’ configuration Vulture the Avro Manchester was designed around). Even the company’s reputation for quality was based not on precision machining, but painstaking, selective assembly on the production line. It was only when the Americans made Merlins that dimensional tolerances were reduced to mass production standards and true component interchangeability was achieved. However, in many other respects – not least supercharger design – Rolls-Royce and the Merlin led the way, and this Graham Hoyland makes clear by setting company and technology in context, covering competitors like Daimler-Benz and its DB601 engine in detail.Read full review
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For anyone with an interest in engineering, history and world war two this is a must read. very clearly writtenwithout getting too bogged down in technical jargon,
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