Ebay madness!

[Stubby]

As long as it isn't advertised as a Mitchell's mark IV spitfire

 

 

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But it would be in every in every respect other than the time frame .

[Eddy_t]

But it would be in every in every respect other than the time frame .

 

No, it wouldn't be a Mitchell's, same as these stihls, they aren't made by stihl, they might be reproduction parts made in the stihl china factory, but they aren't signed off by stihl, it's what copywrite is all about

 

 

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[Stubby]

No, it wouldn't be a Mitchell's, same as these stihls, they aren't made by stihl, they might be reproduction parts made in the stihl china factory, but they aren't signed off by stihl, it's what copywrite is all about

 

 

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No you missed my point . All made from original tooling to original spec and identical in every respect other than the bloke operating the press, lathe , milling machine has a 2013 hair cut and not a 1945 hair cut .

[Eddy_t]

No you missed my point . All made from original tooling to original spec and identical in every respect other than the bloke operating the press, lathe , milling machine has a 2013 hair cut and not a 1945 hair cut .

 

May be identical, but if it was given the Mitchell's name it's a fake, leave off the brand name, hell, even whack your own on, and it's perfectly legal, so you could have a Stubby's mark 3 spitfire, or a Stubby 070, but as it is the OEM brand name, it's fake

 

 

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[Stubby]

May be identical, but if it was given the Mitchell's name it's a fake, leave off the brand name, hell, even whack your own on, and it's perfectly legal, so you could have a Stubby's mark 3 spitfire, or a Stubby 070, but as it is the OEM brand name, it's fake

 

 

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Phew ! Ok you are right Life is tooooooo short .

[treequip]

As long as it isn't advertised as a Mitchell's mark IV spitfire

 

 

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You could advertise I as that because it was the Supermarine spitfire.

[Eddy_t]

You could advertise I as that because it was the Supermarine spitfire.

 

Ok, I stand corrected in that detail, but you get the idea

 

 

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[Stubby]

Developed from the Shnieder Trophy race float plane .....

[woodyguy]

No problem buying a copy if it's described as such. This wasn't. How are you going to get spares? Does it really operate to the same standards as a Stihl? Not something I'd be happy to have spent £510 on, then discover it's not a real Stihl.

[treequip]

Understand what you are saying but when does it become a fake ? E.G. some modern companys buy up all the old tooling for something that has been out of production for , say 20 years . Ship it out to say, India or somewhere and go into production . The product is identical in every way but not made in the original location or even country but made with the original tooling . Is that a fake ? It is possible to make a spitfire mk IV from original tooling with a Merlin engine ( not cost affective but possible ) but it will never have seen service in the battle of Britain ........Is it still a Spitfire ?

 

I doubt very much that Stihl would sell off any obsolete tooling