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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Spitfire DNA
From: topoxforddoc at btinternet.com (Charlie Chan)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:09:56 +0000
References: <B0444974-815E-4750-A505-CD2C421FF240@btinternet.com> <59E2D307-A755-454C-86FC-436FBB788B5E@icloud.com> <35C5E79D-16F8-4C45-A2DA-7026B571B3DD@btinternet.com> <6C8BD886-A117-4045-AE8F-5E452D841413@icloud.com>

Just like Enzo Ferrari's factory race cars, after the season finished. He 
didn't do nostalgia. If he couldn't race it, it got scrapped.

Best wishes,

Charlie

Charlie Chan
www.yourbreast.co.uk
www.charlie-chan.co.uk



On 13 Jan 2014, at 22:01, Gerry Walden wrote:

> Ah, glad we haven't lost it. After all, it was built here. As an aside I 
> remember at the end of the war (I was born in 1945) my father standing me 
> on a bench so I could look over the high hedge around the end of the 
> airport, and seeing rows and rows of parked Spitfires etc. that were now 
> redundant.  I assume they were scrapped, but what they would be worth now.
> 
> Gerry
> 
> Gerry Walden
> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
> +44 (0)797 287 7932
> www.gwpics.com
> 
> On 13 Jan 2014, at 21:58, Charlie Chan <topoxforddoc at btinternet.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Gerry,
>> 
>> They brought it up for the Goodwood Revival in the Concours area
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Charlie
>> 
>> On 13 Jan 2014, at 21:47, Gerry Walden wrote:
>> 
>>> Charlie
>>> 
>>> I thought the original of this was in the aviation museum here in 
>>> Southampton. It used to be at the end of the pier when I was a kid.
>>> 
>>> Gerry
>>> 
>>> Gerry Walden
>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>>> www.gwpics.com
>>> 
>>> On 12 Jan 2014, at 21:52, Charlie Chan <topoxforddoc at btinternet.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Given the exhortations for us to post more, I started to feel guilty. 
>>>> So a short while later this evening, here is something for your 
>>>> delectation.
>>>> 
>>>> Spitfire DNA - Supermarine S6B S
>>>> Schneider Trophy winner
>>>> 
>>>> http://topoxforddoc.zenfolio.com/p617682745/hc5d3851#hc5d3851
>>>> 
>>>> Leica R8/DMR 28-90 Asph
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for looking
>>>> 
>>>> Charlie
>>>> 
>>>> Charlie Chan
>>>> www.charlie-chan.co.uk
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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