There is a pantheon of British planemakers, Goodman’s list, which opens with Robert Hemings, in London, who started making in 1676. Then it works its way in time through Londoner Thomas Granford, Bristolian Samuell Jeenes and William Reynolds in London, all four of them producing planes before the end of the 17th Century. Then, in the 4th Edition of Goodman’s British Planemakers, four new 20th Century makers have been added. Published in 2010 and produced by Jane Rees, it lists the quartet as Philip Edwards (Dorset), Oliver Sparks (Leicestershire), Karl Holtey (Sutherland) and Bill Carter, who makes his highly-reputed and highly-valued planes from a shed in Leicester. His old English mitre plane replicas can sell for many pounds, often to collectors, but they are equally-valued as working tools. Somehow, Bill…