Mobility And Freedom: Folding Boat

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

223

Date Released

1978

Length of issue (in feet)

523

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: In a crowded world we all have less room to move. Our programme looks at some new liberating ideas - and at the families whose lives are now a little freer. Get-away-from-it-all mobility is contained in a lightweight back-pack. One sheet of plastic folds up, like a child’s paper toy, into a fully functional leisure boat without seams or joins - an instant watertight craft weighing only 50 lbs.

Researcher Comments

NB: The boat is made of polypropelene

Keywords

Ships and boats; Science and technology; Design

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/223

Credits:

Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Cutter: Laurence Williamson

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