c1970 Max Sinclair (best known as one of the campaigners for restoration of the Droitwich canals) bought an abandoned and sunk so-called "Mark 1 Bantock" boat near Cannock, which had for some years been used as a spoon dredger on the BCN. These boats are iron composite with an extra wooden bottom strake, generally believed to have been built in the period 1850 to around 1880. He raised it, took it to the Bumblehole boatyard in Netherton and chopped it in two.
Stern section Max's friend Albert Brooks converted it into a 52ft motor boat called GLENFIELD, although it was apparently named TALPA between 1976 and 1985. [Note that the BCN 2142 plate fixed to this boat does not belong to it, but was simply one found lying around in Les Allen's yard and used for "decoration". BCN 2142 is actually The Albion, belonging to the Talbot Garage Co of Kidderminster, and was previously GUCCCo's Antares]
Fore section was made into a 58ft motor boat which Max Sinclair named Ballinger in memory of Charlie Ballinger of Gloucester, who was the last Number One.