Al Murray

Look at the beautiful lines.

Form and function perfectly encapsulated in the airframe of the Spitfire.

Form and function in the engine room, baby.

Right.

It's like you need.

Right.

You need a Heath Robinson.

Heath Robinson machine drawn by Pablo Picasso is your form and function in that room, right?

And when people say form and function, what they want is beauty, but there's an abstract art beauty to that engine room.

No, let's stay in the era.

It needs to be Louis Bunuel.

It needs to be surrealist artists.

It's Salvador Dali designing an engine room.

And I think...

We've talked about, I've talked before about how, you know, the Sherman tank has sort of Art Deco lines, particularly on the bogeys.

It's got Art Deco and you can see the Art Deco and the streamlined design is in the Spitfire.

Art Deco, the sort of streamlined Art Deco design taste, even in the Sherman tank, right?

And in the engine room of the HMS Belfast, it's a surrealist painting of form and function engine.

And it's just, you know, if you're a surrealist artist, you don't need to have clever ideas.

You just need to go to an engine room in a light cruiser and go, right, okay, I'm going to paint this and no one's going to believe it.