Melville Hickman 


Dynamite Marine

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mel Melville Hickman: Mechanical and marine engineer, boat designer and builder, designer extra ordinary.


Academic qualifications: Various engineering diplomas.
 

Your uncle Mel like the rest of your Hickman family is well educated, very talented and extremely knowledgeable on a large range of subjects, he is certainly no car salesman
 




dynamite hard
Here is your uncle Mel's latest design, a nine metre racer. From what uncle Mel told me on the phone the other night and the results of races he has entered this new design of his goes like greased lightning, it appears to be going to be a real winner.
dynamite keel
Here is a picture of uncle Mel with the keel.




dynamite bluff
Here is a picture with uncle Mel's yacht Dynamite going like the wind in Durban harbour. In the background is the Bluff
dynamite channel
Here is another picture of
Dynamite going like the wind in the Maydon Channel



prowler 01
This catamaran was developed and built including all the moulds to put it into production by your uncle for a major South African boat building company.
prowler 02
Here is another view of the Prowler which is a very large pleasure craft being 20 m long



protecta
Your uncle Mel was responsible for the development and bringing into production of this automatic shotgun.







To my dear sons John-Michael and Sebastian

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Michael Hickman

P.O. Box 89 181
Torbay
Auckland
New Zealand
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