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One of the essential qualification requirements for all WWII Spitfire pilots was to learn to read and send morse code at a minimum speed of 15 words per minute.
A small bakelite morse code, key pad and housing was mounted on the starboard side wall of the cockpit just below the spare gunsight bulb rack and was used for air to air communication with other fighters nearby when radio silence was required.
With the firing button on the left of the control column yolk and triggered by the pilots right thumb, sending morse code meant swapping hands to fly the Spitfire with the left hand whilst communicating with the right.
Mounted just aft of the Spitfire’s IFF antenna, the Morse Code ‘Spine Lamp’ featured a fuselage flush-fit housing around a clear teardrop lens over a white transmitting bulb.
The underside of this lamp carries the Air Ministry ‘AM & Crown’ markings denoting a manufacture prior to the end of 1943. Beneath the Air Ministry stamp is the Ref No. 5C/909. The end of the bakelite bulb screw mounting has Ref No. 5C/793.
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