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I would presume (knowing how dangerous a presumption is) that all 12 were delivered with fabric wings. I believe all 12 came from the "L" serial number series. These would be from the first 600 produced. It appears that all the other Hurricanes delivered to foreign purchasers from this series had fabric wings. The exception may be a few of the Finnish Hurricanes, which may have had thier wings replaced with metal wings just prior to delievery, or were overhauld in Finland.
The first metal wing Hiurrican carried serial number N2423. But not all Hurricanes produced subsequent to that number had metal wings. For what ever reason, a few odd batches are reported ot have had fabric wings.
The question for me is whether the Rumanian Hurricanes had two balded Watts Brops or 3 bladed DH proprs. Not sure there is a real rhyme or reason which country received which. It appears that except for the one or two license built Hurricanes, all the Belgian Hurricanes had 2 bladed Watts props. The Yugos also got 2 bladed, but Zamaj built had three balded.
If the Mushrooom Model Magazine article on Rumainian Hurricanes ids correct, then the picture of the Hurricane on page 17 of your Squadron-Signal monograph, would appear to be a Zamaj built a/c, as it had 8 guns.
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Steven "Modeldad" Eisenman
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