Spitfire MK1 or MK11 replicas

All well and good providing that the OP is fully aware of the various nuances. Allowances should be made for people with less detailed knowledge.

Putting aside issues of pedantry or otherwise, if a question is expressed inaccurately there is a high probability that it will not produce the answer the questioner wants. That wastes the time both of the person asking and the person answering the question. Hence the desirability of expressing oneself accurately in situations such as this. Thus if a question is asked of me concerning a Mark 11, I assume that it is about a Mark XI that the questioner wants to know. To do otherwise is to fly in the face of reason. Or should I assume that all questioners mean other than what they say and should I therefore provide answers to every possible permutation of the question? But the reality is, I fear, that today we live in a society in which lingustic precision counts for little. To quote Ira Gershwin out of context, seemingly ‘anything goes’ today!

Does any one know of the whereabouts of a Spitfire MK1 or MK11 that has a complete cockpit in either private hands or a museum in the UK. Presumably a replica as I don’t think there are any originals around or are there?
Many thanks

There are plenty of early mark Spitfires around, are you specifically looking for a replica cockpit section?

Flyingblind,

What information are you seeking from the cockpit?

Snoopy : The first spitfires produced by Supermarine were officially known as Mk1 and Mk1a’s, when spitfires were produced at Castle Bromwich they were known as MkII’s, then the company adopted roman numerals for all other marks until reverting back with the Mk20 series and the Mk45,46 and 47 marks of seafires.

Jason

Ooops sorry. That’s why I’m ‘flyingblind’

Snoopy, you are a pedant. A simple mistake a lot of people make. 🙂

flyingblind, when refering to marks use the Roman numerals. Ie MkI or MkII, it keeps the pedants happy:eagerness:

Pedant I am, but there never was such beasts…. ‘Spitfire MK1 or MK11’.

‘Thin but robust’, presumably. 🙂

There was a genuine MKII Spitfire cockpit that went to auction (last year IIRC).

http://spitfiresite.com/2011/12/1941-production-spitfire-mk-iia-to-be-auctioned-at-historics.html