More News..... History is coming together and thought I would share with all of you after all your help
Built - Canal & River Craft Ltd
Email Information from Shire Cruisers "It was intended to go as a sponsored boat to Adventure Cruisers at Catforth on the Lancaster Canal. I have no record of its intended name. It was largely finished apart from having no engine when Canal & River Craft failed in 1982.
It was then bought at auction by another company which was on this site at the time.
They sold it to the then landlord of a local pub, who called it Tyke after one of his brews, or the other way round. He fitted a secondhand BMC 1.5 engine, and lived on it for a bit, using plastic beer pipe for his gas system….
We then bought it from him in about 1983, finished it off and ran it in our fleet as Rutland. We changed the engine (new Lister LPWS3) in 1989.
We sold it in February 1992."
Neil is an amazing man to still have records. He is going to try and find me some photos :-)