The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire

The former boatyard of the British Power Boat Co. Ltd. The company was formed 30 September 1927 to use R Kemp's Hythe Boatyard which Hubert-Scott Paine had purchased in the same year. The British Power Boat Company became a limited liability company in June 1938 and was liquidated in 1947. In 1989 this site was occupied by Dreamland Electric Blanket Company. The photographer is inside a large corrugated iron clad building with a double pitched corrugated asbestos roof in which there are four rows of rooflights. The interior is filled with steel racking on which large numbers of cardboard boxes are stored, many of which are marked EL 43P. On the floor are wooden pallets with stacks of boxes and the nearest pallet is holding boxes of Breville electric jug kettles. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: N61857
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Studio, National Maritime Museum Photographic
Date made: 6 April 1989
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 76 mm x 62 mm