Journalist and writer Gavin Atkin’s weblog about boats, boatbuilding and restoration
Feb02
A link to this clip of a Pathé film about the process of making hot moulded Firefly dinghies turned up at the Yahoogroup Openboat this week. Lovely stuff!
The link itself comes from this informative but messy page of material about the Fairey Company.
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Turinas Feb 2nd 2008 at 10:42 pm 1
Wizard stuff. Given how many people it took to make on of these, they must have cost a fortune