Hamilton Jet Boat

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Title

Hamilton Jet Boat

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is an early model Hamilton jet boat made by Mahan Boatbuilders of Sumner, Christchurch, around 1954. The inventor, Bill Hamilton (1899-1978), grew up on a high country sheep farm in South Canterbury and developed a love of water with the numerous mountain-fed streams and rivers. In the 1920s he ran his own sheep station in the Mackenzie Country of the South Island. He was passionate about innovation and engineering, and fulfilled a long-held ambition to design a boat which could travel u...

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Format

Image

Date created

circa 1954

Creator

Mahan Boatbuilders / Sir Bill Hamilton OBE

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/258023

Related subjects

wood / vinyl / plastic / metal / boats / New Zealand

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