3610 - WILLIAM V - Built 1914 - WILLIAM MURPHY - Survived
3610 WILLIAM V was one of the eleven Scenic engines built with an auxiliary dynamo platform and subsequently fitted with a Feast post type car lifting crane. She was delivered to William Murphy. Her sister engine 3547 AMY (later TUCKER) was delivered to Walter Murphy in March 1914 to power his Scenic Motor ride. In 1933 she was sold to Samuel Ingram of Hyde, Cheshire and worked along side Fowler 'Onward'. She was sold in 1942 to Bason & Sons, Longsight Manchester. She was acquired by James Botton & Sons of Green Street Green, near Orpington, Kent and in 1955 sold out of showland to John Crawley. Above photo taken at the Queen's Road Fair , Manchester 5th August 1940. She costarred in the 1963 film 'The Iron Maiden' painted battleship grey and renamed 'Dreadnaught'. Purchased by Richard Hazell in 2015/16 from Sean Cox of West Sussex who had bought her from Nigel Myers in 1998.
Early photo of 3610 when still on strakes (no rubber tyres)
Circa 1941
1948
March 1951 at Longsight, Manchester when owned by Teddy Morley
William V lying derelict in 1950s