The advertising tour presents Battle-class destroyers, motor torpedo boats, launches, naval strike aircraft, radar, and a passenger-freight vessel. Hadfields of Sheffield also displays an armor-piercing projectile, keeping ammunition beside ships and electronics in the industrial picture. Harland and Wolff's carrier imagery and Thornycroft's destroyers and small craft show that both fleet units and coastal vessels remained part of the postwar market. Marconi's appeal to the navies of the world places electronics beside hull construction and weapons. The Vickers-built merchant ship for the New Zealand Shipping Company connects naval and commercial maritime work within the same industrial base.
Notable Point · 27:51-29:43
Postwar naval industry in the 1949 annual
The 1949 commercial pages show shipyards and suppliers moving from wartime production into destroyers, carriers, small craft, naval aircraft, radar, and merchant shipping.