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Watch as the iconic Avro Lancasters taxi into position, their four Merlin engines roaring in unison, moments before ...

Powerful and dependable, the Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engine was fitted to many of the most significant warplanes of the ...

There is a man from Meppen, Germany, a town only about 12 miles from the border with Holland, who has anonymously provided a rich vein of joy in my life. If you’ve loved German perform­ance cars over ...

The story of how Honda developed an oval-piston race engine that ultimately failed but still made history along the way.