I’m guessing but maybe a connection with Peter Teichman.
I never knew the spitfire had a connection to folding baby buggy’s .
By: Oxcart - 2nd March 2014 at 17:27
I’ll watch anything with Suzannah Lipscomb in it!
By: Moggy C - 2nd March 2014 at 15:38
It would be free for the presenter – the cost, and undoubtedly it will be hefty would be carried by the production company
Are you sure that it wasn’t the cheap Chinese knock-off of the Maclaren product?
Certain
Moggy
By: Trolly Aux - 2nd March 2014 at 11:36
It can’t be Peter Teichman’s Spitfire as it seems yet another presenter scrounges a flight in a 2-seater Spitfire..
Maybe they put Paul Martin in the back of the P51 or P40, most punters cannot tell the difference anyway.
I very much doubt it was for free at all, there is a basic running cost, most probably ARCO.
By: Mike J - 2nd March 2014 at 11:29
I worked on the McLaren product back in the 1970s. It really was the forerunner of the complete revolution from coachbuilt ‘prams’ to folding ‘buggies’
Are you sure that it wasn’t the cheap Chinese knock-off of the Maclaren product?
By: Zebedee - 2nd March 2014 at 11:22
I thought the McLaren buggy was based on the B-52 undercarriage.
Nope… its the other way round… 😉
Zeb
By: Collis - 2nd March 2014 at 11:20
I’m guessing but maybe a connection with Peter Teichman.
I never knew the spitfire had a connection to folding baby buggy’s .
It can’t be Peter Teichman’s Spitfire as it seems yet another presenter scrounges a flight in a 2-seater Spitfire.
Also, I thought the McLaren buggy was based on the B-52 undercarriage.
By: Trolly Aux - 2nd March 2014 at 11:01
Moggs, I got it wrong with the PT connection, but I am sure he had something to do with buggys.
Orion, why ask that question ? its TV !
By: Orion - 2nd March 2014 at 10:25
OK, but what is so special about the Spitfire’s ‘wheel folding system’ apart from the fact that the wheel isn’t folded.
Regards
By: Moggy C - 2nd March 2014 at 10:17
The secret of being a TV presenter is that you can use the flimsiest of excuses to get production companies to fund your jollies.
As Paul realises a childhood dream by flying in a Spitfire, proclaiming it “the best thing I’ve ever done in my life”, we learn how the buggy’s folding system, which is now so complex that it is studied at a number of universities, was inspired by the Spitfire’s wheel folding system.
I worked on the McLaren product back in the 1970s. It really was the forerunner of the complete revolution from coachbuilt ‘prams’ to folding ‘buggies’
Moggy
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