Tried posting a couple of times tonight but no joy, the server was having a fit, this is the last of "discards" I think worth posting, "no red herrings" but very few pointers too.
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Could it be a Martin Maryland?

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Not from Martin

It's been a while. You should post the answer, and then select another one.

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I know but we had the server breakdown so I will leave it one more day. I also have to look up for a replacement and I'm really running out ou ideas.

HINT: It's italian but it's maker is better known for a very different sort of vehicle.

like a Fiat?

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This one was driving me "mad" ... Then the server went down, well you know the rest.

Anyway TiredOldSoldier I reckon (with the help of your clue) that it's the Piaggio P50-1 (MM369) prototype. From the photo you posted it's nigh impossible to identify the "pusher" engines, thought the propellers looked more like wing-struts until I found a photo of one from a different angel.

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The Piaggio P50 is correct, I confess I photoshopped out the tail markings but the "disappearing pusher engines" are from the original, I also had to look for other photos to explain why it was described as a four engined plane while I could only see two. Where did you find MM369 ? MM usualy stands for Matricola Militare and 369 is awfully low for the thirties, Italian plane production was sluggish but not that bad !

Over to you

Nice try TiredOldSoldier ... But I can't reveal my sources, I could tell you...But then I'd have to kill you

The MM369 was the caption on the photo I found ... There where three versions of the P-50 the last one being listed as MM371? The pusher engines were a complete surprise when I finally found it, convinced it was a twin engined we were looking for. Difficult one that mate...Well done.

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Okay chaps ... This should be easy enough

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Japanese ..... despite the markings
Mitsubishi KL83 prototype.

I had Ki-83 ... But what the "L" ... It's turning out harder to find a decent one than it is to identify the bloody things

Over to you TiredOldSoldier.

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Well if you pick a picture from William Green ..... my second copy of his books is surviving only because the font is too small for my worsening eyesight. And I wore out the first set when I was a kid.

This is not great but .... it's the only one I have ready.

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Looks almost like a Kawanishi E7K.

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Looks to me like a Nakajima possibly E2N but not 100%.

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Wonder why do you all assume it to be japanese? it's not

That's not a Swordfish converted to a Seaplane, is it? No, it can't be. The whole front is different.

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The stringbag was modern by compairason.

Is it the French built Potez? something between the XV and the 25???

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Not from Potez .... haven't been able to find any reference to it on the net but the family resemblace to other planes from the same very well known manufacturer and designer is unmistakable.

i want to say that is some sort of floatplane varient of the SPAD, but i dont think thats it

Not a SPAD
HINT The line goes back to WW1 but the company the designer worked for was different, you may not be able to find that particular model but there are plenty of others that have a very close resemblance.

American Company? Curtiss or Grumman?

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Not US.
Hint: the designer was famous for floatplanes in WW1 and between the wars but for something rather different in WW2.

As in Sopwith? The closes I found to the picture was a Sopwith 2B2 Rhino, but it's not a float plane.

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