the spitfire fund

• Spitfire fund

  Government-backed scheme to fund Spitfires
• Lord Beaverbrook


  • Led the Spitfire fund
  • Head of the Department for Aircraft
• Spitfire fighter aircraft

  If an individual or business raised £5,000 they could have one named after them
• It cost between £8,000 and £12,000 to build a Spitfire
• Spitfire events

  Local communities staged them to raise money
• Nazim of Hyderabad


  • Donated so much money that the 152 Spitfire Squadron was built in his honour
• Gold Coast in Australia


  • Donated £25,000 (5 Spitfires)
• Winston Churchill


  • Wartime leader
  • Detested Hitler and Nazism
  • Spoke out against Germany in the 1930s
  • Opposed appeasement
• Neville Chamberlain lost more and more support as it was clear that appeasement had not worked as war was declared
• Chamberlain resigned on 10 May 1940
• Winston Churchill was appointed Prime Minister on 10 May 1940
• Coalition government


  Government formed of MPs from different political parties to govern Britain during war