pp. 312, 352 Photographs, Diagrams and Working Drawings. #0921
(Some wear and fraying to cloth on spine cove; bookshop stamp on fep.)
Hobbs seems to have taken on the role of the Bassett-Lowke in-house “ships and boats” expert, and the Holborn branch benefited from a range of model boats that Hobbs commissioned to be built by London-based companies (and probably also designed). If Hobbs was involved in model yacht club activities, they he’d have had his “finger on the pulse” as to what London-based model yachtsmen wanted, what else was already available from other sources, and how much they were prepared to pay. The Holborn shop is supposed to have done very well under Hobbs’ managership, and contemporary photographs show it with model boats very visible in its window displays.