Ex Hotel boats

[X Alan W]

When Joyce & Peter Fox left Peter Frouds hotel boating setup & went self employed their boats were Mallard & Dabchick the other ex hotel boat sseem to surface now & again but on their stopping trading their boats seemed to disappear I assume they were renamed so maybe they assumed their original or different names Any one know their fate Thanks

[max's son]

This pair

[pete harrison]

3 hours ago, X Alan W said:

When Joyce & Peter Fox left Peter Frouds hotel boating setup & went self employed their boats were Mallard & Dabchick the other ex hotel boat sseem to surface now & again but on their stopping trading their boats seemed to disappear I assume they were renamed so maybe they assumed their original or different names Any one know their fate Thanks

MALLARD and DABCHICK are still both extant with MALLARD being a house boat (on the Staffs and Worcs Canal ?) and DABCHICK still a butty but hulked (at SHARDLOW ?). It is a few years since I have seen either of these boats so my observations may be a little dated

[alan_fincher]

I may have my boats completely mixed up, but was Dabchick an LMS boat?

If so, could this be it? (The right hand one of the "historics")

 

[pete harrison]

7 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

I may have my boats completely mixed up, but was Dabchick an LMS boat?

If so, could this be it? (The right hand one of the "historics")

DABCHICK is an L.M.S.R. boat, starting its life as NORAH. Clearly it has been improved since I last saw it.

 

The boat on the left in you photograph is the F.M.C. Ltd. motor TROUT 

[alan_fincher]

5 minutes ago, pete harrison said:

DABCHICK is an L.M.S.R. boat, starting its life as NORAH. Clearly it has been improved since I last saw it.

 

The boat on the left in you photograph is the F.M.C. Ltd. motor TROUT 

Thanks for confirming - I wasn't sure if my memory was playing tricks.  It has been put into pretty good order externally, I would say.

Here is another of Trout.  Both pictures from exactly a month ago.