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DM45017 has had been purchased by autumn 1972 and was repainted into LMS livery at Holyhead while awaiting delivery to the SVR.<ref name=SVR25>SVR News 25</ref> This became something of a prolonged saga,<ref name=SVR29>SVR News 29, HRSG Notes</ref> as it did not arrive at the SVR until 9 July 1974, the stock book noting that it was intended to be used as a private party saloon coach.<ref name=SB5>SVR Stock Book Fifth Edition, September 1974</ref> Its stay was short-lived as it had left by spring 1975, moving from Highley to the Dinting Railway Centre<ref>SVR News 35</ref> in the care of The Bahamas Locomotive Society<ref>[http://lmsca.org.uk/blog/category/carriage-preservation/ LMS Carriage Association]</ref>.

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 had begun at Highley.<ref name=SVR29/> 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>.