Warbird Information Exchange

Just a note. Radial engines do not have an engine block. More commonly known as a cylinder block.
That is the housing that contains the cylinders. The part or parts you are refering to for a radial enigne is called a crankcase for the power section, or reduction gear case, or accessory case depending on the section your reffering to.
As far as Ford building aircraft parts, I think they had a major contract to build the Wasp Majors for
B-36, and KC and C-97's. They built a bunch of them.

I read an article once about Packard and the Merlin. According to the writer Packard got all the drawings of course and an example engine. As they compared the sample to the blue prints they found dozens of inconsistencies. They had little choice but to build to the blueprints and found thier first engines had many problems that RR had worked out in thiers. On investigating they found out that RR was still such a craft shop that when problems were found in the overhaul shops the techs would just walk over to the appropriate production shop discuss the problem and a fix over a cuppa' and institute the fix without any paperwork or even anything so cumbersome as an engineering conference.

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"I can't understand it, I cut it twice and it's still too short!" Robert F. Dupre' 1923-2010 Go With God.

As for the Ford "Script" Jeeps on the examples I have seen virtually every part has at least the Ford logo or the Ford F stamped, cast or engraved on all major exposed parts. The story told me by the owner of the first one I saw is that most of Ford's output was being lend/leased to the Soviets who in turn were telling thier citizens that the vehicle was designed and built in the good old USSR. Supposedly old Henry got so mad that he had the Ford logo made a part of every jeep he built so that everyone would know where they came from.

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"I can't understand it, I cut it twice and it's still too short!" Robert F. Dupre' 1923-2010 Go With God.