Dear Bruce and Norman
I am sure it may have been a missed opportunity for somebody, somewhere but I do believe I have never been insulted so in my life!
Given the Titanic hiccup, I would be failing in my duty to the public were I to have a Judy Finnegan moment on the 2.40 to Southport. So Harlands may be plan D.
Now, if my memory serves me right, Harland and Wolf lives just a short hop, if you don't mind getting your feet wet, from Shorts, later to be bought by Bombardier, following a failed bid by Fokker (and why wouldn't they be!) builder's of aircraft and a director of whom looked so like a young James Garner as to make no difference in a bad light!...........Sorry, where was I? So perhaps, Magic would be kind enough to avail herself of all opportunities, excluding test pilots, and see if there happened to be a parachute division - they needed one - with surplus silk. Failing which I will just have to be inventive with the the canvas. Necessity is the mother of tension.
Chesca