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Speedboats large and small powered along the Broads at Oulton in Suffolk during the summer of 1948.
Boats that were outboard, with a motor on the outside, and inboard, a motor on the inside, were captured competing against one another in archive BBC footage from the time.
The top speed of the day was just 33mph (53km/h).
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