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Old 23-06-18, 00:18
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During WW2, when Rolls Royce car engineers were working on adapting the Merlin aero engine to use in tanks, they had change the rotation to Clockwise because that is how auto engines were and this entailed making new camshafts. This is not a myth, it came from the RR Historical book on the development of Meteor.
Just looked at the Light Tanks manual and the valve timing diagram for the Meadows (and Rolls on earlier Marks), appear to be clockwise.
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