Model of a 1950’s Garfield Wood speed boat MIZ LIZ, built circa 1975.

Brass labels to deck: BUILT BY Gar Wood

Dashboard with dials, label: GARWOOD 1947 FORD V8, wheel marked: FORD V8

Oak display stand with makers label: “MIZ LIZ” A 1950 SPEEDBOAT BY MIKE ALSOP.

Length: 152cm.

Width: 48 cm.

Height: 40 cm.

Fitted with a Later Zenoah 2 stroke single cylinder petrol engine, and radio control.

Provenance: Christie’s South Kensington: Maritime & Naval Battles (Models), 16 May 2007.

Garfield Wood: Garfield Arthur “Gar” Wood (1880 – 1971) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and championship motorboat builder, and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to travel over 100 mph on water.