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Plover

11/1933          Engine changed to 15hp BM-type Bolinder at Saltley Yard

30/7/1949       Purchased by BTC (D&IWE), SE Division fleet, fleet no 235

7/1952            Transferred to NW Division fleet, renamed PARROT

1/10/1953       Passed to BTC (BTW)

6/11/1962       Re-Registered at Northwich No 122

1/1/1963         Passed to BWB

c1963              Sold to Peter Froud, trading as Inland Waterway Holiday Cruises Ltd, Preston Brook

late 1964         Sold to D&R Houlston Canal Carriers, Kinver

1969                Operated as camping boat and name reverted to PLOVER

1973                Sold to Warwickshire Flyboat Co, Stockton, and used mainly as a camping boat

1988                Engine changed to Lister JP3

1991                Sold to private ownership

1995                Extension cabin added, but otherwise maintained as cargo carrying boat

2000                Extensive hull repairs carried out by Industry Narrowboats and forecabin added

Engine changes: 1960s: Enfield horizontal opposed, 1967: Armstrong Siddeley - Merganser twin, 1988: Lister JP3.