Back to Merlins! I have a Rolls Royce in house magazine with the story of the Crewe Shadow factory somewhere, I shall dig it out and have a read but I seem to remember that it took less than a year from turning the 1st sod to having a running Merlin on the test bed! they were building parts and training local men as the factory was being built around them. they took a core of skilled men from Derby and used them to train and run the new factory. as an apprentice it was for me hallowed ground to walk around that place and still find evidence of the past at Crewe, the engine test cells still had engines running but of the V8 car variety instead of V12 Merlins but I could still dream……………..
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