I thought it would interest some here: Spitfire Factory Home

………..The Druine Spitfire…….it’s painted yellow…….

Can anyone make out which Turbulent (sorry, prototype Spitfire) it is.

Roger Smith.

Were the Spitfires wheels, tyres and brakes unique….? Surely not… Not exactly a ‘Spitfire Factory’ then, more of a ‘man-cave’ – well sort of…
I think that the controversial ‘Druine Theory’ of the evolution of the Spitfire is frankly riscible, when most ‘experts’ agree that ‘le Spitfires’ wing was a straight crib of the Emeraudes. I mean, tis obvious, innit….

As any fule kno…………

Haha, I knew it. My theory is right. The Spitfire is French! Reginald Mitchell didn’t design the Spitfire. It was Roger Druine. And the proof is hanging from Terry Farrell’s roof. I don’t know why the rest of you fools didn’t spot the evidence and draw it to the attention of a breath holding world. Look at the third picture in the DT article. The Druine Spitfire. And as it’s painted yellow, it must be the prototype – as any fule kno!

http://manchesterhistory.net/architecture/1920/spitfire.html

http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/spitfire-factory

“Did” produce tyres and other parts, not “may have”…..Very interesting link.

So correct me if I’m wrong, but he lives in a onetime tyre factory which may have produced tyres which were fittred to Spitfires.

Thanks for that heads-up – I wonder whether the Palmer Tyre Company referenced in the article is connected to the Palmer Cord Tyre Company from World War I, as mentioned in this news item from NAM http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/newsItem.php?id=717 ?

Another line of enquiry!