<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 22px; ">"The job facing Packard when they undertook manufacture of the Merlin was daunting to say the least. It’s bad enough having to build a complex product like the Merlin but exacerbating the situation was the fact no tool maker in the U.S. made Whitworth taps or dies. Therefore, Packard were forced into making their own. Although this created a significant hurdle to overcome, the effort was well worth it, Packard and Rolls-Royce components were interchangeable."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 22px; "><br></span></div><div>Well, you only had to ask - we'd have lent you some. And a spanner.</div><div><br></div><div>Phil M1GWZ</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 22px; "><br></span></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 9 Nov 2015, at 05:44, Alex Fraser wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<font face="Comic Sans MS">On an email list once a guy asked "what
is a Whitworth?", Some wag answered "two half wits". That pun
has infected my brain for years...<br>
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