Originally Posted by
pmills575
When I worked for Ford Motor company (2011) they still held the drawings for their version of the Merlin. Many thousands of Merlins made by Ford after they redrew the plans to a modern style suitable for mass production techniques. Story was that Rolls queried Ford to ask if the spces were too tight and Ford replied no, too loose!
That was Sir Stanley Hooker, quoted in "Not Much of an Engineer". As a theoretical scientist, he'd assumed that RR were the bee's knees as engineers.