During our regular saturday trips to London I bought this Spitfire from Heathrow Airport's souvenir shop in the summer of 1972. It cost me £1.50p which was a lot of money in those days. Having only just started work my take-home pay was £6.80p per week. The little battery to run the propeller around was 8p, by the time that they were becoming extinct they cost 20p !!. Sadly now this style of battery is still no-longer available. Unless I'm mistaken...
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Sadly the now opaque canopy is very loose, falls-off everytime it does an inverted dive, the aerial has long-since sent it's last message and the roundle-decor on the wings are slowly following suit. But after 38 years it's not looking too bad !! ...Forgot to mention the tail wheel that rolled-away... over the years.!
My wife has a Stuka (Ju 87) with the bomb you can drop by pressing a button on the side. She thinks you could put caps in them to make a bang. Can you still get rolls of caps?
She thinks she got it in 1968/9.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
The original issue of these two Dinky's, Spitfire and Stuka, was to coincide with the, then new, Battle of Britain film. They came in a card box decorated with images from the film. Later reissues were in the Bubble type pack. The Spitfire had the motor and the Stuka had the bomb that you could put a "cap" in.
Not sure you can get the caps anymore PNK - not sure though.
Mint and boxed examples today, if you can find truly MINT examples, may well cost well over £100, perhaps more.
Memories........... I've forgotten what they are !!
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...Forgot to mention the tail wheel that rolled-away... over the years.! 
