Engine identification help
 

Experts,
please help to identify this plane engine.
Images on internet do not resemble well enough.
Perhaps you have an original foto for such an engine.
Thanks a lot
ginamod

Re: Engine identification help
 

Looks like a late series RR Merlin. (Or possibly Packard or Griffon??) Appears to be a Rotol type four bladed hub, however. Certainly not German, hence this ought to go into the Allied section of the forum.

What is the pile of wreckage in the background? Need much more photo detail and resolution.

Any more information??

Re: Engine identification help
 

Gents,

just a guess in view of the four prop-blade device: Packard Merlin of a P-51?

Cheerio
Norbert

Re: Engine identification help
 

It is a Merlin

It appears to have just a single stage supercharger but has a four blade Dowty propeller and fish tail exhausts that look decidedly Spitfire.

This is not a combination generally found in production Spitfires if indeed it is a Spitfire.

It could be a very rare Spitfire Mk VI or even a Seafire III.

Further images of the structure and engine bearer would confirm.

PeterA

Re: Engine identification help
 

Hopefully Ginamod will come back with more information.

Was this recently recovered?

Photos of the other wreckage might be more interesting than the engine.

Re: Engine identification help
 

Sorry, I have no further info but these poor fotos.
They might come from the ninetens.

ginamod

Re: Engine identification help
 

I regret,
I have no better fotos,
found by chance.
They might be taken in the nineties.
Is it impolite to put the same request on USAAForum and Parts identif. Forum?
Regards
ginamod

Re: Engine identification help
 

More poor fotos, nothing else I have.
Thanks for help
Regards
ginamod