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

Description:

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."

Details

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 Issued:

1941

Format:

1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.

Member of:

National Automotive History Collection

Filing Location:

Packard--Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines

Note (Content):

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."

Rights:

Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.