Has anybody any idea of what this might be?
My dad got hold of it, probably in the late forties, early fifties and it wasn't new then. It originally had two shafts, each with two props on, one coarse and a much finer one at the end of the shaft, only one of the coarse props is left. There used to be a big brass 'A' frame (more of an 'M' really...) to support the end of the shafts. At some point dad converted it to have a single shaft (as it only had the one it in), and that's what the central hole in the keel is.
As far as he knew, it had never been completed and never knew what the deck would have looked like.
Some sort of lake speed boat? It just looks somewhat odd with the vertical bow, and that massive tumblehome on the stern.
Cheers
Lance
