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Hamilton's Jet : (Record no. 33232)

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000 -LEADER
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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 15405510
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field OSt
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20141119141131.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780473289904 (pbk.)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780473289911 (hbk.)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (NLNZils)1666679
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)894506183
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (Nz)15405510
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Stock number Nationwide Book Distributors Ltd, Oxford, Canterbury.
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency WN
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency WN
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 338.762
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Hamilton's Jet :
Remainder of title The biography of an icon /
Statement of responsibility, etc John Walsh.
263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE
Projected publication date 1408
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Prepublication ISBN.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "The first stirrings of the embryonic engineering enterprise that became CWF Hamilton & Co Ltd began 75 years ago on a high country sheep station at the foot of Mt Cook ... the inventive Kiwi farmer, Bill Hamilton, and his idealistic English wife, Peggy, fashioned an extraordinary community turning rabbiters and farmhands into skilled trades-people. When Bill Hamilton won the contract to construct an aerodrome at Mt Cook in 1935, the sheep farmer-turned-engineer was on his way to establishing an engineering business eventually to employ 500 people in Christchurch that would leave its mark on the post-War infrastructural development of New Zealand. Yet it was Sir William Hamilton's jet boat hobby that made him internationally renowned. He and his team discovered for themselves the secret to a successful jet boat, one that could tackle the swift-flowing rivers of the South Island. Soon Hamilton's jet was making headlines conquering the Colorado River upstream through the Grand Canyon, river racing in Mexico, re-tracing Stanley's footsteps in Zaire and jetting Sir Edmund Hillary in the sacred Ganges in India. In the economically turbulent 1980's, CWF Hamilton & Co nearly succumbed like so many companies. To secure its future, the Company morphed from a multi-product heavy engineering business, aimed at the domestic market, to a single product-line manufacturer with a global perspective. That product was not the jet boat but the waterjet propulsion system itself. The untold story of the Company's success on the world stage from that point on, in competition with Rolls Royce no less, is a salutary lesson in how to make commercial success of Kiwi ingenuity. Hamilton Jet is now the dominant propulsion choice for high-speed oil industry crew boats, navy and coast guard patrol boats, fast ferries and lately offshore windfarm servicing vessels around the world. With millions of dollars of waterjet product leaving the Christchurch factory each week, the legacy and romance of Bill Hamilton lives on"--Publisher's description.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element HamiltonJet (Firm)
General subdivision History.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Non-Fiction - New Zealand
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date checked out Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification   For loan Non Fiction Waimate Pop-Up Library Non-Fiction 19/11/2014 ALLB 25.00 4 338.762 a00686738 27/05/2022 15/03/2022 19/11/2014 Non-Fiction - New Zealand
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