The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Newsletter 35, which landed on my mat this morning, has several pages of text & photos of a visit to Rolls-Royce Derby by Robin Byers and Peter Grieve with their trailered Merlins. The contributor was obviously quite impressed - so he should be! - with the engineering expertise shown in bringing these two engines to running condition.
There was definitely a feeling of "go thou and do likewise" and, considering the environment; this should bode well for the resurrection of Interesting Engines in the future.
Specifically, Bristol Engines were cited as having restored the DB601 installed in the ME109 "Black Six" some 20 years ago and - more recently - the Lucifer
and the Coventry branch restored and ran a Puma.
In scratching around unsuccessfully for a picture of the Lucifer, I did come across a downloadable PDF of " Aero-Engines Exhibited & Stored In The United Kingdom & Ireland"
which may be of interest to many contributors here.
Running to 48 pages, I'm just amazed there are so many engines in so many places, some very unusual - for instance, who would have looked for a Rolls-Royce "Hawk" of 1916 vintage in the Windermere Steamboat Museum?
Very interesting - ain't the Internet wonderful ;o))