Martin Baker Fighters

[PR19_Kit]

I called my models Monsoons, on the grounds that M-B just didn't have the production capacity to make them and they sub-contracted them to Hawkers.

[Weaver]

Hmm... Martin-Baker Musketeer sounds quite good.

[PR19_Kit]

It does too. 

[kitbasher]

Matador? 

Mauler?  The MB5 beat the Martin Mauler into the air by 3 months, so.....

[jcf]

I called my models Monsoons, on the grounds that M-B just didn't have the production capacity to make them and they sub-contracted them to Hawkers.

That'd be a bit more than subcontracting.

I could see the government ordering the design transferred to Hawker Siddeley and HS management assigning
actual production to Armstrong Whitworth. 

AW's last named fighter was the A.W.35 Scimitar so a sword name wouldn't be outside of the realm of possibility.

[perttime]

Spitfires and Lancasters were called Spitfires and Lancasters, regardless of who built them???

[Old Wombat]

Spitfires and Lancasters were called Spitfires and Lancasters, regardless of who built them???

Yes.

[jcf]

Spitfires and Lancasters were called Spitfires and Lancasters, regardless of who built them???

That's because they'd already been named and assigned designations before being put into production. Castle
Bromwich was put under Vickers Armstrong management so for all intents and purposes those Spitfires were as
much Vickers built as the Southampton machines, ditto the rest of the dispersed production Spitfires.

The MB.5 never received a name and designation so it's pretty much wide open as to both, but Rapier is unlikely
as Napier already used it for an engine. 

The reason I mentioned the A.W.35 Scimitar is that if the MB.5 was produced by AW then a sword related name
would tie the other guys' design they were building back to AW heritage, morale boosting internal propaganda.