Lord Halifax and other men in control room of propeller test cell for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine

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View of Viscount Lord Halifax and other men in control room of propeller test cell for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine. Label on back: "In the control room of the propeller test cell, Lord Halifax and party look on as a Rolls engine is put through its paces. The complicated control panel simulates actual flight instruments and enables an exhaustive working test of every finished engine."

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Resource ID:: na043403
Subject:: Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959; Merlin engines; Rolls-Royce engines; Packard Motor Car Company; Photographic prints
Date:: 1941
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Location:: Packard--Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines
Content Note:: Part of a group of photographs depicting "a forty-week period wherein the Packard Motor Car Company brought the Rolls-Royce Merlin fighting engine from blue print to production."
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.