The second of three similar carriages supplied by the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Co., Ltd., of Saltley Works in Birmingham together with F.40 and F.42 in 1907, following an initial batch of two (F.33 and F.34) in 1905, this carriage remained in regular use largely unaltered from original condition save for livery changes; this was until it was selected by the M.E.R. Board to be converted in 1979 to accommodate wheelchair passengers.  This was achieved by removing the panelling from the large luggage compartment section and replacing it with non-opening windows with softwood frames; internally platform benches were added and an opening between the double doors and former luggage area.  It was outshopped in the then-standard maroon and pale cream livery with yellow lettering and the modified crests applied.  Two large windows were also created in the rear bulkhead at this time, and vents from other members of the series fitted along the top of the luggage compartment area, replacing what had been fixed windows; panelling on the side duckets were also modified and the integral lamp housings atop the duckets removed.  Not long after entering traffic in this guise it was used for filming the B.B.C. television programme Seaside Special which can be viewed here.  In this form it survived in traffic until withdrawal at the end of the 1989 season, by which time the timber framing of the new fixed windows had badly deteriorated.  After withdrawal it was stored, moving to the then-new carriage shed in 1998.  In poor condition it was scrapped in 2003, the bogie runner surviving until 2011 when it too was scrapped, leaving only F.43 and F.49 as representatives of this type of carriage, only the latter now being in regular traffic.