File:Aero engine and stand (AM 1963.68-3).jpg

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Aero engine and stand   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Rolls Royce
Title
Aero engine and stand
Object type Exhibitions
Classification: NM3.11030
Description
English: Rolls Royce Merlin “F” category C, aircraft engine 1939 (1937.) and stand. The “F” was the pre-production series of Merlin engines, and this was the 30th engine built at the Rolls Royce Experimental factory in Derby, England. It was later sectioned in the workshops of No 4 Maintenance Unit, RAF Ruislip MDX, and made into a demonstration display model. .1 engine .2 stand with electric motor .1- .2- rectangular wooden base with four steel supports for holding engine; electrical motor located under panel at one end. label on motor reads- 'Metropolitan Vickers, Elec. Co. Ltd., Manchester, England, A.C. Motor - Representative Fairey Electrical and Engineering Co. Ltd., Anzac Avenue Auckland' plaque- MERLIN F - CATEGORY C - SECTIONED IN WORKSHOPS - NO. 4 MAINTENANCE UNIT - R.A.F. RUSLIP M.D.X.
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; World War 2-wars; Circa 1939; 05 Apr 1963
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length: 2460mm
width: 950mm
height: 1180mm

notes: to top of steel arms
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
1963.68
Place of creation Wellington; Derby
Notes Rolls Royce Merlin “F” category C, aircraft engine 1939 (1937.) and stand. The “F” was the pre-production series of Merlin engines, and this was the 30th engine built at the Rolls Royce Experimental factory in Derby, England. It was later sectioned in the workshops of No 4 Maintenance Unit, RAF Ruislip MDX, and made into a demonstration display model. Believed to have been brought to New Zealand as a demonstration model for the 1940-41 New Zealand Centennial Exhibition
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