PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Guy Martin's Spitfire
View Single Post
Old 24th Jan 2015, 23:56
  #44 (permalink)  
Fishtailed
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: PORTUS SETANTIORUM
Age: 73
Posts: 310
Received 6 Likes on 2 Posts
GUY MARTINS SPITFIRE

Just been repeated tonight and I managed to watch it this time,
and just read through the posts here. I know of Guy from following bike racing and have watched his TV programmes, which I think have been interesting. He is a genuine engineer who works on comercial vehicle engines as his prime ocupation, and does his own mechanicing on his race bikes. I think Fred Dibnah would have got on great with him, they both share the same idea about British industrial engineering heritage, and didn't speak the Queens english either! I don't think Raymond Baxter would be the man to present this programme nowadays, however much I greatly respected him
.
Throwing a spanner in, did they use auto wire locking pliers in 1940 or do it by hand as I was taught in 1968, if not they were'nt being true to the plot!

Great programme, and good to see Geoffrey Wellum after reading his excellent book.
Fishtailed is offline