A small assortment of records for partial Morris canoe builds were discovered many years ago in the Old Town repair records. See http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/morris/records/ for more about this. Many of these appear to be partially completed canoes that were filled, railed, fitted, finished, and shipped by Old Town in 1921 after the Morris factory burned in December of 1919. Both sides of the last one are shown below.
Morris is also known to have worked with Kennebec to build over 200 canoes in 1924 which were given Kennebec serial numbers in the 50,000 range. I was interested to discover some notes on page 143 of volume three in the Kennebec records which indicate that the first 16 of these may have also been issued Morris serial numbers in the 17,000 range. This page is shown below along with two of the following pages which confirm that these canoes were planked, finished, and shipped by Kennebec.
It would be interesting to find one of these and see what numbers they actually have.
Benson
Morris is also known to have worked with Kennebec to build over 200 canoes in 1924 which were given Kennebec serial numbers in the 50,000 range. I was interested to discover some notes on page 143 of volume three in the Kennebec records which indicate that the first 16 of these may have also been issued Morris serial numbers in the 17,000 range. This page is shown below along with two of the following pages which confirm that these canoes were planked, finished, and shipped by Kennebec.
It would be interesting to find one of these and see what numbers they actually have.
Benson
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