Lynx

7/1930           Engine changed to 15hp BM-type Bolinder at Saltley Yard 

30/7/1949       Purchased by BTC (D&IWE), SE Division fleet, fleet no 227

1/10/1953       Passed to BTC (BTW)

1/1/1963         Passed to BWB

10/2/1964       Sold to private owners but continued to trade, initially on loan to Birmingham & Midland Canal Carrying Co, later under the Midland Canal Transport partnership, and finally in the retail coal trade, until c2000

2013               Sold to South Midland Water Transport Ltd

                      Still (2021) maintained as cargo carrying boat

There is another boat of this name in our archive: GUCCC Lynx (built 1935)

For photo caption, click on the i, top left of photo