Broom Boats from the UK set up its new World wide web virtual showroom. Well known as the pure British Aft Cabin Cruisers, Broom was founded in 1898 by Charles J. Broom, who started up by building individual sailing boats on the Norfolk Broads, which by 1912 was moved into a full business operation of hire and sell. In early 1920's Broom was among the first companies to build an internal combustion engine boat, which in the thirties followed the previous sailing boats pattern into entering the hiring business. 1939 as history says was the advent of World War II with many pleasure orientated boat yards closing down its doors, but this was an opportunity for Broom which was one of the few selected by the British Navy to build Harbor Launches, Lifeboats, and Fast Tenders. These contracts led Broom to build boats in a production environment. The mid sixties brought fiberglass in the UK, and while many on the Broads where sceptic about this new material Martin Broom formed a company with four other partners named Aquafiber Ltd, which he acquired full interest in 1971. Among the first models built with fiberglass for the company was the Broom 30. Today Broom after a couple difficult years is set to look into the future, thanks to new shareholder input in 2009 and also with with the acquiring of GH Fabrications specialized in various stainless steel items for the pleasure boat industry, and second with the appointment of Graham Warren of 500 Design as designer. Graham was previously with Fairline for the previous 23 years. The current Broom range features six models which start with a 30 Coupe, and end with a 455 flagship. Brooms new web showroom takes you around with the following buttons; Home, About Us, Range, Customization, News and Events, Pre-Owned, and Find a Dealer. Broom also features its social media pages; Twitter and Facebook with a link at the bottom of the page.
Production History;
35 Captain 1950-67
Admiral 42ft 1955-62 (7)
30 Bosun 1966-67 (3)
30/ Skipper 30ft 1966-81 (250)
37 Continental 1968-78 (186)
35 European 1973-83 (157)
Ocean 37 1973-83 (157)
37 Crown 1978-86 (83)
Ocean 42 1978-89 (36)
Saxon 40 1981 (1)
Monarch 40ft 1982-91 (28)
32 1982-95 (80)
35 Solent 1984-87 (19)
9/70 1984-88 (28)
10/70 1984-89 (57)
Ocean 40 1986-91 (20)
37 1988-91 (19)
33 1989-92 (29)
31 1991-98 (15)
44 1991-2001 (14)
42 Shannon 1992-93 (15)
36 1992-96 (33)
41 1992-99 (27)
Ocean 31 1993-98 (17)
29 1995-2002 (51)
34 1996-99 (29)
34 Sedan 1996-99 (4)
345 OS 1996-2001 (14)
Ocean 38/38 CL 1997-2002 (64)
35 CL 1999-2004 (22)
50 OS 1999-2009 (21)
415 OS 2000-05 (12)
42CL 2000-07 (49)
450 2002-09
39 KL 2003-08 (53)
530 2004-11
365 2006-08 (7)
425 2007-11 (21)
395 2008-19
455 2010-14 (1)
370 2011-19
30 Coupe 2012-19
35 Coupe 2012-19
430 2014-19
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