On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:00:42 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

A Merlin was fited to a transit van at one time. In the back. No room
under the bonnet.

If you've seen one on display, you'll know why. 27litres of V12 (*) takes
up a fair bit of room. Even if it could be shoehorned in, there's then the
question of a gearbox stressed to transfer the power to the wheels...

(*) A bit of background research revealed that all the engines it
outperformed during WW2 were considerably larger. A testament to the RR
engineers, methinks, even allowing for the supercharger technology, which
was quite widespread anyway.

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