A one off Beaufighter was built in Australia using Pratt & Whitney engines with extended nacelles. It does not look the part.
The modifications to the airframe to fit Merlins made it impractical to go that route.
The later Hercules will fit, Harold Thomas fitted 600 series to his aircraft at Narellan, albeit a static.
Tim Moores aircraft, ex Halton, had I believe 100 series engines fitted with four blade props and modified engine bearers.The problem with the later series engines, which we have, is that they have a large oil sump which fouls the engine bearer and instead of a vertically mounted starter motor it sticks out at the rear, plus the magnetos and fuel pump stick out at the side. End result is the engine bearer has to be modified which pushes the engine four inches further forward and requires the nacelle to also be modified. We have the drawings. However there is a gent out there in the aviation world who knows where there are some original engines, we have seen the photos, but several years down the road we have not been able to put our hands on them.
Thank you for the clarification Mr R.
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