Formed in 1906 to produce automobiles, Rolls-Royce was asked to begin designing and building aircraft engines at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Design of the Merlin began in 1933 following the ...

It was also the most successful model the company ... It was Rolls-Royce that designed, without government funding, the 27 litre V12 Merlin aircraft engine. Merlin powered Avro Lancasters and ...

Rolls-Royce produced the Merlin engine, used in the famous Spitfire fighter planes. The rear doors of modern Rolls-Royce models, known as suicide doors, open in the opposite direction to the ...

Rolls-Royce's history also includes lots of aircraft engines, such as the Merlin engine that powered ... Park Ward. These models were the first Rolls-Royce cars to feature a BMW engine, the ...

yacht design studio Claydon Reeves is showing their newly-produced model of the Aeroboat alongside the Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engine destined to power the craft. A stylish and entirely British ...