June 13, 2010 at 6:04 pm
[ATTACH]185514[/ATTACH] Can anybody ID this Factory Stamp ? looks like PME 17 in the circle.
By: bazv - 14th June 2010 at 18:24
All the aircraft manufacturers used to sub contract many items /assemblies out to smaller specialist firms.
rgds baz
By: hindenburg - 14th June 2010 at 18:13
Thanks for that,was told it was Stirling,and it is a bit of canopy with perspex still attached,Stirlings were built in Birmingham,wonder if they were some sort of sub-contractor.?
By: bazv - 14th June 2010 at 09:58
from graces guide,1939 aircraft suppliers list
link…
Perfecta Motor Equipments Ltd., Excelsior Works, Oxford Street, Birmingham, 5, have a large and well-equipped works for the production of fixed and sliding hoods for pilots and gunners. They make windscreens, sliding roofs, windows, etc., to be fitted with plastic material to the F.56 specification, and undertake all sectional fabrication work.
edit…and from ‘Flight’ 1954
link
PERFECTA MOTOR EQUIPMENTS,
LTD., Oxford Street,
Birmingham 5 (Midland 1673).—
Manufacturers of aircraft canopies,
windscreens, emergency exits, miscellaneous
ejector-seat sub-assemblies,
light alloy and steel presswork.
By: anneorac - 14th June 2010 at 09:01
Perfecta Motor Equipments Ltd. Birmingham.
No…I’ve never heard of them either.
Anne