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I’ll watch anything with Suzannah Lipscomb in it!

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

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.

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?

I thought the McLaren buggy was based on the B-52 undercarriage.

Nope… its the other way round… 😉

Zeb

I’m guessing but maybe a connection with Peter Teichman.

I never knew the spitfire had a connection to folding baby buggy’s .

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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.

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 !

OK, but what is so special about the Spitfire’s ‘wheel folding system’ apart from the fact that the wheel isn’t folded.

Regards

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