Unless Jeffrey Quill had made a mistake with the date, which does seem doubtful bearing in mind that he flew Mutt Summers to Eastleigh in a Falcon for the express purpose of flying K5054. It is almost impossible to refute that statement. JQ states that on 6th March he flew the Falcon to Martlesham to pick up Mutt Summers to take him to Eastleigh. On the same day, at Eastleigh, JQ flew R J Mitchell's assistant designer Major Payn for a jolly in the Falcon. Later in the afternoon he flew back to Brooklands with Mutt Summers where they retired to the Brooklands members bar. It is difficult to believe that the dates of these events could in some way have been 'lost.'
What is curious though is that people seem to have ignored Jeffrey Quill's account altogether. Yet there it is in black and white - as, of course, with many other black and white versions.
Did anybody, I wonder, ever get to view Vickers records?