A Thornycroft V/12 marine petrol engine in the Hampton boatyard
A starboard broadside view of a completed Thornycroft V/12, 250 bhp, petrol engine mounted on a wooden transport cradle on the quayside of the Thornycroft boatyard on Platt's Eyot at Hampton-on-Thames. A label of the cradle shows that this engine was transported by road from Thornycroft's Basingstoke Works on 4 May 1916. Painted on the cradled is J.I.T. B 1386 MO/.
Object Details
| ID: | N63970 |
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| Type: | Negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | 1916 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 120 mm x 165 mm |