Short article on Len Gooch, the Supermarine Works engineer thrown to the fore by the bombing of the Supermarine Works on the 24th and 26th of September 1940. Gooch was to take on the monumental task of managing the complete dispersal of Supermarine's production in the weeks and months following the raid. The article, written …
Gilbert Olsen, Spitfire Fuselage Assembly Foreman, 1939-40
Gilbert Olsen, Foreman on the Spitfire Fuselage Assembly line in the Itchen Works in Southampton 1939-1940. Killed in the raid on the Itchen Works 24th September 1940
“Spitfires” and plenty of them
1938 Movietone Newsreel showing Supermarine Spitfires under construction and being test flown at the Final Assembly in Eastleigh (Southampton Airport)