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Illuminated waterline 1:96 scale builder's model of ORSOVA

AC/01802/00

ORSOVA (1954)

Object category: SHIP MODEL

Date made: c.1954

Maker: BASSETT-LOWKE Ltd.

Shipping Line:

ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD

Material/medium: Mixed materials: incl. wood metals, plastics, paper and cotton.

Dimensions:

overall: 46 x 231.7 x 36 cm

A waterline 1:96 scale model made in 1960s by Bassett-Lowke Ltd, Northampton.

As a travel agent's model it would have been displayed in a front window or booking office.

It is hollow and illuminated (now with museum standards LED fibre optics).

It is made in wood and plastic with metal and organic material fittings. 8 lifeboats on davits on each side.
The hull is painted and finished in the Orient Line buff yellow and green below the waterline.
The model was originally displayed on a blue-green painted sea base in a glazed show case.

The model was loaned to the Indefatigable School, in Wales by Orient Lines in the 1960's and was returned to the collection in 1995.