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 looking across a concreted storage yard containing wooden pallets,  steel storage racks containing scrap cardboard, a storage rack containing cardboard tubes, a large skip containing scrap cardboard and a large number of steel storage racks.  in the background is a corrugated iron clad building under a double pitched roof with a side extension under a single pitched roof.  The extension has a partially open roller shutter door and windows are along the side.  A vertical format negative.
              
      
    Object Details
| ID: | N61850 | 
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| 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: 77 mm x 62 mm |