[WWI] Plywood

[Helen and Chris]

Robert, 

you are an absolute mine.  Thank you.

Postings are overlapping, but we all seem to be heading in the same direction.

Aidrian (thank you for your posting, too) will probably agree with me about common names - they are so misleading!  "Lin" or "Lyn" wood (both are correct as i and y were pretty much interchangable in ye olde Anglysh) has, to an untutored eye, a similar appearance to tulipwood.

All it takes is one boor with a little knowledge and a bit of authority, to create identificational mayhem for years to come. You can just hear it, can't you? -

"Chewlipwood? Whaddayamean "Chewlipwood"?  Chewlips is a flower, yer daft sod.  Yer can't bilda door or hew a beam from a buncha chewlip stawks!  That, yer spindle-shanked mistake, is a lumpa linden!!!"

Hence your logical reasoning, Robert, based on faulty information, that a "tulip tree" is a "lime".

Let's hear it for Latin!!!!  It really does save a lot of problems.

Chris.

> On the Nieuports, the nose area was covered in narrow strips of tulipwood, 
> which has nothing to do with tulips, but is apparantly a "lin" wood as I've 
> seen it spelled...also "lynwood", which seems to be linden or bass. On the 
> Nieuport 28 the tail feathers were covered like this also. Almost a 
> "Pfalzish" method of covering.
> 
> In the Sopwith family, the areas around the cockpits and nose sides was 
> coiered in birch 3ply.
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