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Episode 278 Beatrice 'Tillie' Shilling - Engineer, Motorcycle Maven and Saviour of the Spitfire

Episode 278 Beatrice 'Tillie' Shilling - Engineer, Motorcycle Maven and Saviour of the Spitfire

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 A shorter episode this week but that makes it the perfect length to listen to on your way to Holiday Shopping. This week we go uplifting as we dig into the life of Beatrice 'Tillie' Shilling. The child of a master butcher and one of thre girls born and raised in the South of England, she spent her pocket money on tools and penknives, deconstructed devices to see how they fit together and worked and played with Meccano sets, early construction toys allowing children to build working models of cars and cranes. She would even win a competition for building from these kits. By the age of 14, she bought her first motorcycle originally to beat her sisters in bike races. But she tuned, tinkered and replaced every single part remaking the machine and soon was speeding around on it everywhere. She began to study practical electronics and work in the field as young as 15, even going on to become an Engineer (in the 1930's when women just didn't do such things). We cover the life of this amazing woman and how she saved both the Spitfire and the Hurricane, earned an OBE and hit the ton at Brooklands as a motorcycle racer in this uplifting, girl powerm yes it's in Surrey but there's no fringe on top episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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