Lord Halifax in propeller test cell for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine

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View of Viscount Lord Halifax in propeller test cell for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine. Label on back: "Lord Halifax takes the throttle in a Rolls production test cell to feel the power as he feeds the mixture to a testing engine. Twenty-six of these modern dynamometer test units will handle the production output of Packard Rolls engine, permitting a 14-hour test for each engine."

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Resource ID:: na043405
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.