Reginald mitchell biography

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RJ MITCHELL

A short biography of Reginald Joseph Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire.


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    • Mitchell was born on the 20th May 1895 at 115 Congleton Road, Butt Lane, Stoke-on-Trent in the Potteries area of England, famous for its ceramics. His parents were both teachers (although his father later started his own printing business).

    R.J. had three brothers and two sisters. At school, he showed a flair for both maths and art (his youngest brother, George William Mitchell "Billy", was a very accomplished artist, founding a ceramic transfer company in Stoke on Trent, designing patterns and various imagery for Royal Crown Derby, Minton, Spode, and lots of other top companies) but the young Reginald`s first love was engineering.

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    In 1911 he was apprenticed to a firm of railway locomotive makers in Stoke-on-Trent. As part of his apprenticeship, he attended night school where his flair for mathematics was particularly evident. In 1917 he made the bold move to Supermarine in South