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Three driving Mustangs, and one flying

Cheers Theis

You'll never catch me driving any ford, I'll take the rear mustang because it wont blow up from starting it!  ;D Cheers, The Gunny who hates all fords but the model T!

I know which one I prefer! Amazingly enough, the connection goes further than the name. The Ford motor company (GB) did wonders for the Rolls Royce (and hence the Packard) Merlin too...

When R-R first proposed Ford producing the engine they were worried whether a motor company would be able to match and produce the correct tolerances in the manufacture of the engine. When Ford saw R-R tolerances, they laughed, and pointed out to R-R that they were already producting their products to tolerances several times better than R-R were producing the Merlin! Hence for produced a much better manufactured Merlin!

I know which one I prefer! Amazingly enough, the connection goes further than the name. The Ford motor company (GB) did wonders for the Rolls Royce (and hence the Packard) Merlin too...

When R-R first proposed Ford producing the engine they were worried whether a motor company would be able to match and produce the correct tolerances in the manufacture of the engine. When Ford saw R-R tolerances, they laughed, and pointed out to R-R that they were already producting their products to tolerances several times better than R-R were producing the Merlin! Hence for produced a much better manufactured Merlin!

Amazing what I learn here...