Re: SER1 Lake Payne Engineering Workshop

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What a shame these are now only made in Germany. The Hawker Siddeley (ex
De-Havilland), now British Aerospace? plant at Lostock, Bolton in the UK
used to make/repair them along with with most other types of props and their
constant speed units and many types of landing gear in the 1960's when I was
an apprentice there.
Cheers
Martin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allan Harding" <Allan.Harding@xxx.xxx.xx>
To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: SER1 Lake Payne Engineering Workshop


>     I know what you mean Nick,
>      It is a fairly large project in itself. I have no idea how the
> things stay anywhere near in balance. The blades are wood too, this
> material can change size, shape and weight overnight.
>      The blades for this prop and these days all other new Spitfire
> props are made only by Hoffman. You guessed it, a German company. You
> are also correct about the size of the things. They look impressively
> big when on the aircraft and positively massive when on the bench. The
> castelated locking nut refered to earlier (and the tool to undo/do it
> up) is about 7" diameter.
>     Cheers
>     Allan
>     Canberra, Australia
>
>
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