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LMS 7991: origin of the 'Fever' nickname
==LMS 7991==
LMS Tourist Open 7991, originally LMS 5682 and later Dock Labour Coach 3, was presented to the Group in 1972 by the Port of Manchester.<ref name=SVR25/> It arrived on the SVR on 9 December in that year and by autumn 1973 was beginning restoration at Highley.<ref name=SVR29/> It later moved The Group announced that it would be moving to Hampton Loade in winter 1973-74, together with DM395273, where preparations would begin for an external repaint from its current "Fever Green" into LMS Crimson Lake.<ref>SVR News 30, HRSG Notes</ref> In August 1977 the SVR Stock Book recorded that it was still owned by the Group and was still in course of restoration.<ref>SVR Stock Book Sixth Edition</ref> The 'Fever' Coach, as it was described, left the SVR in Autumn 1979 during 'a bit of a clear out of rolling stock', moving to the Midland Railway Trust at Butterley<ref>SVR News 53</ref>.
==DM395273==
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