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Rare Edwardian boat-building photos from Salter Bros Ltd (part 1)

Below are the first of a collection of rare photos of boats built by Salter Bros Ltd around the beginning of the twentieth century (c. 1900-1910). Some of them were slides used for promotional purposes. They include some of the earliest motorboats and steel-hulled craft built by the firm, as well as some craft built in the inter-war period, i.e. after the Edwardian period.

[The images are copyright of Salter’s Steamers Ltd and cannot be reproduced without permission]

Above: Motor Launch Sprightly (built 1904)
Collapsible lifeboat (sign reads ‘D.A.Talboys, late T. Talboys, boats to let and for sale’)
Collapsible lifeboat
A racing craft
‘S43’
Minnie
Moxomis
Leander (built 1905)
Kassed Kareem (1907), built for the International Engineering Company
Unnamed vessel
Unnamed motorboat
Unnamed motorboat
Unidentified boat being built
Ant (built 1905)
Lena (35ft x 6ft6in)
The Sikh (in the fleet from 1907)
Canadian canoe
Lady of the Lake (1921), built for Nawab Salar Jung Bahadur
of Hyderabad
Sailing canoe
Unidentified 25ft craft
Unidentified steamer
Racing craft

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