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Siblings Smiths Jaeger mk 111b stamped S.Smith & Sons (MA) with Air Ministry mark Jlc weems stamped S.S.& S Both stand for Samuel Smith & Sons and only months apart, the clock is November 39 and the Weems is early 1940 The link between Smiths and Jaeger is very interesting and complicated but...

Hi folks just thought I’d share my fully serviced and cleaned smiths mk 111b It’s so nice to have it back and working how it should be, my clockmaker if anyone wanted to know for their clocks was Mike Elderton of All in the balance.

Here’s some more information on the mk 111b and photos of the vickers supermarine PRX1

Here’s some photos of an original PR spitfire used by coastal command.

Hi mate Yes all makes sense I don’t think fighter spitfires I’m pretty sure these were used on Photo reconnaissance spitfires, two rebuilders of pr spits say these were definitely used in them, not saying my one was though, kind regards as always and a great help.

Have you got a link to that please mate ? Cheers

Cheers guys

Yeah I don’t read too much into it, I did hear from someone who knows his stuff the one that said coastal command used them specifically, and that the PR spitfire used them, I shared a drawing of the pr spitfire cockpit and it looks like a 24hr but hard to tell if it’s this one. Here’s the...

Ah yeah I’ve came across that, just wondered if there was any photo evidence, Thanks for the reply much appreciated

Hi I was wondering if you would have any photos of the smiths mk 111b clock in a cockpit of any plane during ww2 Kind regards Joe

Ah thanks mate that’s really cool

Thanks for your patience and help mate, I was hoping to find an image of the click in a Hudson or Beaufort but they seem to have a different click all together, coastal command does make sense though. The same chap tells me they were used in photo reconnaissance spitfires and he’s restoring...

This photo is from a video on YouTube is this the duxford one ?