Avis

5/6/1923          Iron composite motor boat

1/1/1949          Purchased by BTC (D&IWE), NW Division fleet

1/10/1953        Passed to BTC (BTW)

c1960              Sold to private ownership, full length cabin conversion added

c1970              Renamed COURTNEY

1978                Sold to College Cruisers Ltd, Oxford, and renamed ISIS

1979                Sold to private ownership and name reverted to AVIS

[Note: the above dates conflict with information from 1979 owner which states that the name was changed to ISIS about 10 years earlier and the name AVIS was restored 5 years earlier, but this does not correspond with sightings reported to the HNBC Archive at the time or Clive Guthrie’s research.]

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