Reginald Mitchell Blue Plaque - Butt Lane, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire - Rotary International Markers on Waymarking.com

The 'blue plaque' is located on the front of the house that was the birthplace of Reginald J Mitchell CBE AMICE FRAeS, aeronautical engineer and designer of the RAF's WW2 fighter the Spitfire.

Reginald Joseph Mitchell (1895-1937) was born at 115, Butt Lane, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. He was the eldest of the three sons of Herbert and Eliza Jane Mitchell.

He trained as an engineer then joined the Vickers Armstrong Supermarine Co. in 1916, rapidly becoming chief designer.

He designed sea-planes during the 1920s and early 1930s, and from one of them, the Supermarine S6 which set speed records and won the Schiedner trophy in 1931, he developed the Spitfire.

Mitchell did not live to see the success of his Spitfire in combat in World War Two.
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The blue plaque is inscribed as follows;
'Newcastle-under-Lyme Civic Society
Reginald Mitchell
1895-1937
designer of the Spitfire aeroplane
was born here
Rotary Club of Kidsgrove'

There is also a stone plaque on the wall above the blue plaque with the inscription:
"Reginald J Mitchell
CBE AMICE FRAS
Designer of the Spitfire
was born here
20th May 1895"

Plaque or monument: Plaque Placed by?: Newcastle-under-Lyme Civic Society and Rotary Club of Kidsgrove.

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