Hurricane & Battle photos, France 1940.

[Larry]

Just a thought - for any given batch of Hurricanes say for example in the P2535 to P3984 range that you are interested in - are there any records of when aircraft were completed by the factory - without looking at the individual RAF record card for the serial?

It would help a lot if you could say for certain when approximately aircraft were ready instead of working with a wide range such as Nov 1939 - to July 1940 for the above. Did the Hurricance get produced at a steady rate. If this was at a rate of 100 plus per month for this batch you can assume P29 may have been ready towards March 1940 and perhaps not sent to France as 1) RAF Losses in March 1940 were small and 2) by the time the s*** hit the fan in May 1940 it was too late to send many replacements.

Also regarding Hurricances with serials P29... etc I do not see many used in France so I do believe that 79 Sqn had Hurricances built well before March - May - no doubt with a much lower number serial - say P2576. And don't forget it's easy to make a 5 into 9 in photos.

Just a theory! Don't be too hard on me!