Vanguard
Collected Images
VANGUARD in Regent's Park, c 1912
(BW192/3/2/2/28/84)
VANGUARD at FMC's Fazeley Street depot in about 1930. Mr MacAnderson, (FMC's southern area manager,wearing bowler hat, is standing on VANGUARD's counter.
(BW192/3/2/2/2/68)
Similar but wider view of the scene above
(Source unrecorded)
VANGUARD as a motor, on the Braunston flight in 1937, with the butty Spain
(identified in Waterways World)
The motor narrowboat VANGUARD, employed on maintenance duties on the Regent's Canal, c1952, still in FMC livery
(Ian Wilson Collection)
VANGUARD as FRANKLYN in Samuel Barlow livery. The caption states"Empty boats wait in the arm at Braunston. The pair belong to Samuel Barlow whilst, in the background, is Harvey-Taylor's Franklyn" Closer examination reveals that there are two boats in the background facing in opposite directions!
(Source unrecorded)