Reginald Mitchell's awards and prizes

Awards

Mitchell was voted the 'Greatest Midlander of all time'.  The votes in this television poll for BBC TV Midlands Today in 2003 were 25% in favour of Reginald Mitchell.  William Shakespeare took second place with only 17%.

Awarded the Silver Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society and made an Associate Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1929.

Awarded the CBE in 1929.

Accolades

The R.J. Mitchell statue and the Mitchell Memorial Theatre, both in Broad Street, Hanley (to the right of the front of the museum).  The theatre was opened in 1957 by Spitfire pilot Group Captain Douglas Bader.

The Reginald Mitchell Memorial Trust (Chair Mr. J.A.M. Humphries, First Floor, 2 Broad Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 4HL.  Telephone 01782 265586).

R.J. Mitchell Model Flying Club - telephone Mr. Leese 01782 839789.

Reginald Mitchell Society chair Ellis Bevan (founded October 2004).  The society appointed Mr. Sidney Frank as its President.

Large mural of Spitfires in the Longton Exchange shopping centre.

Aircraft images along Reginald Mitchell Way on the Tunstall bypass.

R.J. Mitchell park - a purpose-built park in Normacot.

Commemorative plaque on Mitchell's birthplace at 115 Congleton Road, Butt Lane.

The Reginald Mitchell Primary School, Butt Lane and Mitchell High School, Bucknall.

The Mitchell Memorial Lecture, supported by the Stoke-on-Trent Association of Engineers.

Gladstone Pottery Museum commemorative bone china plate.

Prizes

1922 - Mitchell's Sea Lion II won the Schneider International Seaplane Trophy.  It set world records for marine aircraft in distance, duration and speed (130 mph).

1927 - Mitchell's Supermarine S5 won the Schneider Trophy with a speed of 281.65 mph.  The same machine later established a world record speed of 319.57 mph.

1929 - Mitchell's Supermarine S6 won the Schneider Trophy again and established a new world air speed record of 357 mph.

1931 - Mitchell's S6B won the Schneider Trophy for the third time in a row, making Britain the outright winner.  The plane achieved a new world speed record of 407.5 mph.