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The Ivatt Class 4 Group owns [[LMS Ivatt Class 4 43106 | 43106]], "The Flying Pig", the last surviving member of this class.
[[David Williams]] and colleagues visited Lostock Hall depot in 1967 intending to reserve a Stanier 2-6-4 tank. The last two members of the class had gone for scrap a couple of weeks before the visit, and so the shed foreman offered them 43106 instead.<ref>[http://www.82045.org.uk/news/82045_news-aug21.html The 82045 Steam Locomotive Trust, News Update - August 2021] (Retrieved 9 September 2021)</ref>
Railway Herald magazine reported on 7 November 2011 that the Fund is one of three similar funds operating on the SVR. An initial group of 18 members formed The Group, a larger group later formed The [[Passenger Tank Fund]] to purchase [[BR Riddles 4MT 80079]], before a still larger group formed [[The 75069 Fund]].<ref>Railway Herald Magazine Issue 290, 7 November (2011), p. 16.</ref>
As with these other groups, they have no public presence or social media sites.
==See also==
[[List of preservation groups]]
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