Hi, I recently obtained this Spitfire relic, I am not really requiring an ID on this part as I know that it is part of the frame that held the armoured windscreen in, it has the part number 30030/368 or maybe 363 the last number is a bit harder to read. I know that the 300 indicates it was made for Spitfire Mk1 although the Spitfire this was recovered from was a Mk IIa but from what i understand the 300 part number can be used on any Spitfire mark unless it was modified. the 30 indicates that it is part of the main fairing the 368 or 3 I think is like an individual part number. What I am trying to find out is what the other markings are, there is what looks like might be a makers stamp on it, to me it looks like it says IRMA or IPMA? and there is a A in a round circle.
Attached to it is a seperate part made of a different metal, seems to have rusted more than the main part that has 1940 on it which I guess is the year it was made and also has a part number 30030/369, actually i just thought that the other number is probably 368 as they were both joined together. it has what I think says 1E SC but the E might just be part of the wear of the metal and just happens to resemble an E?
If anyone is able to tell me more about these markings I would be very interested to know.
The part itself was recovered from the wreckage of Spitfire MkIIa P8394 which was named Gibraltar it crashed on the 29th of January 1943 sadly killing the pilot, P/O Henri Jeanne Paul De la Bastita, it is thought that he blacked out due to his oxygen supply equipment failing.
Attached to it is a seperate part made of a different metal, seems to have rusted more than the main part that has 1940 on it which I guess is the year it was made and also has a part number 30030/369, actually i just thought that the other number is probably 368 as they were both joined together. it has what I think says 1E SC but the E might just be part of the wear of the metal and just happens to resemble an E?
If anyone is able to tell me more about these markings I would be very interested to know.
The part itself was recovered from the wreckage of Spitfire MkIIa P8394 which was named Gibraltar it crashed on the 29th of January 1943 sadly killing the pilot, P/O Henri Jeanne Paul De la Bastita, it is thought that he blacked out due to his oxygen supply equipment failing.