Lapwing

(Date not known) Engine changed to 15hp BM-type Bolinder at Saltley Yard 

30/7/1949       Purchased by BTC (D&IWE), NW Division fleet

1/10/1953       Passed to BTC (BTW)

1958                Converted to 50-seat passenger boat

2/1965             Sold to Inland Waterway Holiday Cruises Ltd, Preston Brook, still used as passenger boat but occasionally used for cargo carrying with passenger boat conversion temporarily removed

1980                Sold to Premier Narrow Boats, Acton Bridge, operating as Lapwing Cruises

1986                Sold and operated as The Floating Boater from Paddington Basin, London

c2017              Still in passenger boat form although disused, now at Alvecote