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What an interesting looking guy....Meteorite Engine-Landrover

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.
 
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enrich01 said:
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.
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Wild indeed....but I love it.
 
nickjaxe said:
Very very interesting....we used to be very good didn't we.
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....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 Comet ☄️
 
The history of Rover's War time Engine building has not really been given the credit it's due.. A History, well worth reading up on.
Rover's Solihull Plant was used to built and developed Engines, including Whittles Gas turbine which Rover played a big part in.
Rover took over production of the Merlin/Meteor engines and developed the V8 Meteorite to power the Leyland/Thornycroft Mighty Antar tank transporter.
Leyland also built tanks, and a huge range of trucks, becoming one of the biggest Truck exporters in the World at one stage...
Shame that's all been forgotten and its legacy destroyed...
 
mikeau said:
I always thought that naming a tank after an anti-monarchist was a bit strange... o_O


(EDIT - and of course after one of Santa's reindeer.) :rofl:
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Tanks seemed to get named after political figures , Churchill etc but Artillery after Clerics , Sexton , Priest , Bishop 😳
 
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