Spitfire Brass label

Ross
Many thanks for the drawing mate, hope the project is progressing well
Regards
Jay

Even though I,m having a hiatus from it for a while (hard life on the beach now 🙂 ) the guys are going well with the skeleton.[ATTACH=CONFIG]221420[/ATTACH]

Pinkharrier

Fantastic information and thank for sharing it with us ,you must be very proud of your dad, who did he work for at that time?

Jay

I think he workd for Southern Aircraft at Gatwick. He later left to work for Chilton at Hungerford on some projects including redesigning the Meise to become the EoN Olympia.

Hi Edgar,

Many thanks for the above information, my apologies for late reply as had virus on laptop despite having 2 anti virus programmes running and only just got it back.

436 “To introduce 30 gallon jettison tank (removable parts.)”
597 “To strengthen the sump of the jettison tank at the bottom of the stack pipe.”
626 “To redesign the vent pipes for 30 & 90 gall jettison tanks.”
682 “To provide additional vent on 30 gall jettison tanks.”
727 “To improve the sealing washer in feed connection on all jettison tanks.”
799 “To delete rear vent on drop tanks.”
827 “To introduce a gauze filter in drop tank sumps.”
959 “To delete stabilisers from 30 gallon drop tanks.”
The last mod was cleared 4-3-44, so your label post-dates that; interesting to see how “jettison tanks” became “drop tanks.” American influence, perhaps?

Pinkharrier

Fantastic information and thank for sharing it with us ,you must be very proud of your dad, who did he work for at that time?

Jay

Hello Edgar,
Here is a list of all the numbers listed on the plate, all prefixed with the letter M
436
597
626
682
727
799
827
959
Ross
Many thanks for the drawing mate, hope the project is progressing well
Regards
Jay

Years ago my Mum said Dad did something for the spitfire. Naturally he never talked about. After he died, Google produced this

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=GB&NR=559490

http://www.google.com.au/patents?id=lBx-AAAAEBAJ&printsec=drawing&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Also interesting is this http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q140/lufbramatt/slipper1.jpg

Tanked

Closest drawing I have is 30065-257-H

The drawing exists, in the RAF Museum’s collection of drawings, held in the library. The mod numbers are rather indistinct, so I’m having trouble reading them, but, if you can let me have a list, I can tell you to what each one refers.
827 was “To introduce a gauze filter in drop tank sumps.”

Hi Edgar,

Yet again you come up trumps, do you have information on what the other numbers stand for?
Is there any drawings available along with any photographs of the tank both on and off the spitfire?

Regards

Jay

30065 sht 251 covers the 30-gallon slipper tank. The “M” references are, almost certainly Spitfire Modifications; 436 was for the introduction of the “30 gallon jettison tank.”