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The sculpture was offered to Birmingham City Council at the reduced price of £2000 in August 1972 but they decided against buying it. By this time other offers had already been received by Monro who told the Birmingham Post "I've had two definite offers. One from an individual and one from an organisation, both of them in this country."

An offer was made by garage owner John Leek, managing director of All Electric Garages based in Harbonne, Birmingham. However on September 15th 1972, Mike Shanley, another garage owner, sealed the purchase for £3000. Shanley admitted that he had only become interested in purchasing the sculpture having read about John Leek's interest in a newspaper article. He placed a bid on the same day.

The sculpture survived a fire at this location in June 1974.

During 1975 it was loaned to Birmingham College of Art and Design between the 30th June and 3rd July as a symbol for the 'City of the Future' symposium which took part at the Gosta Green campus.

It returned to owner Lesley Maby's garden on 28th February 2017 where it has remained ever since.