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Silver Spitfire Mk IX - MJ250 - UF-Q


LSP_Ron

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Hi,

Just catching up on this thread and looking forward to your progress.

One minor thing. The seat was NOT bakelite. It was plastic. I am not certain of the composition but I seem to recall it was some sort of paper and resin mix.

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Here's a quote from Edgar on seats:

 

There isn't a truly "correct" colour, since the material could vary, quite substantially, in colour, even on the same seat. It wasn't Bakelite, either (some mandarin, in Whitehall, has a lot to answer for, for using the name,) but a resin/paper (yes, really) mixture, and the colour depended, quite a lot, on how the material was made. 

 

He's still helping us!

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