SPITFIRE POSTSCRIPT
C. R. RUSSELL
1994

First edition. Signed.
Memoir of working for Supermarine in Southampton.

21 x 15 cm. 204 pp
Very good + condition. Slight wear to the corners of the front cover but otherwise very clean and tidy. Signed on the title page.

CYRIL RICHARD RUSSELL, born in Bitterne, Southampton in 1919, attended Bitterne C of E School, and on leaving at 14 years of age joined the Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd. in 1936, after two years of blind alley boy's jobs.

In September 1936 he was given an apprenticeship as a Sheet metalworker and remained with Supermarines until 1947 as a skilled tradesman.

After this he spent his time in the aircraft industry within a variety of posts finishing with the Hawker Siddeley Aviation Co. in 1972.