Wild indeed....but I love it.Well it is all Rover... The Rover built Meteorite, being the V8 version of the V12 Rover Meteor Tank engine, looks like a wild combination.
Very neat, compact epicyclic gearbox. The gear ratios, should make it quite an economical cruiser too.
Very very interesting....we used to be very good didn't we.A much more detailed look at the 18 L Rover V8 powering his Series 1.
....We indeed did.... The outstanding RR Merlin powering the RAF got detuned ( as we had lots of them mid WW2 ) to the Meteor for Tank fitment ( as a full power Merlin would blow any transmission to bits ) and made some very fast British tanks Cromwell and CometVery very interesting....we used to be very good didn't we.
I always thought that naming a tank after an anti-monarchist was a bit strange...British tanks Cromwell and Comet
Tanks seemed to get named after political figures , Churchill etc but Artillery after Clerics , Sexton , Priest , BishopI always thought that naming a tank after an anti-monarchist was a bit strange...
(EDIT - and of course after one of Santa's reindeer.)