Re: Miss Packard

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
" 
" According to the Hemmings article referenced by Ken
" Ames, Henry Ford was asked to build the Merlins first.
"  He turned the War Department down because he was such
" an isolationist.  This is before December 1941.

i'm glad he didn't.  ford had the capacity but i don't believe the
ability to make the merlin reliably.

he also designed his own v12 that he thought would be better than the
one the war production board wanted him to make, for tanks iirc.  it
was essentially a scaled-up zephyr engine, cast iron flathead.  they
didn't bite.  it would've been a triumph of manufacturing, but
probably a steaming load of crap on the battlefront.

" Joe Fulton
" 
" --- farna@xxxxxxx wrote:
" 
" > On December 6, 2005 andrew hay wrote:
" > 
" > > those 8s could've been packards; they had an air history much like
" > > rolls royce or bmw, up to ww2.  it's not by accident that packard
" > > built the merlins for the aaf in ww2; also not by accident that they
" > > were better at it than rr.
" > 
" > It could've helped that the Packard factories
" > weren't being bombed... ;> 

geeze, if you want to get -technical-...	;^>

packard was also probably much the larger, and that would've helped.
was rr actually bombed?
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