The development and production of the Merlin was in large part down to Rolls-Royce chairman Ernest Hives. Now Derby historians have come together to highlight his contribution to winning the war.

On 27 July 1942 a lone German aircraft dropped four bombs on the vital Rolls-Royce Merlin engine factory, killing 23 people. It was Derby's most lethal air raid and took took air defences and ...

Each of the dozen Aeroboats to be built will pack a reconditioned, marinized, fuel-injected Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engine – the same 27-liter powerplant that propelled the Spitfire. With 1,100 ...

In the 1930s, Rolls-Royce had developed one of the finest pieces of engineering ever conceived: the Merlin engine. Planners knew they had something special in the supercharged V-12 engine ...

It was Rolls-Royce that designed, without government funding, the 27 litre V12 Merlin aircraft engine. Merlin powered Avro Lancasters and Supermarine Spitfires were instrumental in preserving the ...