re: #121 Stoatly

To nitpick: the Germans had fuel injection, the Merlin still used carbs - which gave fuel feed problems in neg G maneuvers.

“Miss Shilling’s orifice”

She probably saved the lives of countless pilots in Spits and other Merlin engined planes who could now fly a greater range of maneuvers

Looks like an early/late difference:

The following year the London factory was closed down and relocated to a part of the old Wolseley Car Plant at Adderley Park Birmingham. Morris Motors Ltd required 1,000 units a week, so 17,000 was spent on plant and equipment. With now strong financial backing, the company could develop new products, the first of which was the Petrolift in 1929 followed by a Aero carburettor in 1932. One type was fitted to the Rolls-Royce aero engines that powered the Hurricane, Lancaster and Spitfire. Another type was used on the Napier engines which powered the Tempest and Typhoon planes.

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With the out break of WWII it was important that production was secured, so a duplicate plant was set up at Riley Motors Coventry. In 1940 the factory in Birmingham was damaged twice, so they moved to Highlands Road, Shirley, South Birmingham. Around this time the Air Ministry had set up a shadow factory in the Wharfe Valley Yorkshire, and in 1941 the SU Company acquired it to produce components for aircraft engines, including a fuel injection pump that was developed for the Rolls Royce Merlin engine.

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