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Newport Docks, film negative
Triumph sports cars (then part of the British Leyland conglomerate) awaiting export at Newport Docks and Hillman Avenger cars being driven aboard M.V. TOYOTA MARU via a specially installed ramp. Hillman Avengers would have been re-badged as "Plymouth Crickets" for the American market.
There were nineteen vessels with the name TOYOTA MARU, each of 20,000 plus gross tons and all built by Kawasaki in Japan.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
1996.96/1823
Creation/Production
British Transport Docks Board
Date: 09/1971
Acquisition
Donation, 14/5/1996
Measurements
Length
(mm): 61
Width
(mm): 95
Techniques
film negative (black & white)
film negative
negative
Material
film (photographic)
Location
In store
Classification
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