Brief Biographies of Major Mechanical Engineers

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Adamson, John Beherns
Born 1860. Educated in Carlisle. Apprenticed to NBR at age 14. In 1879 moved to David Rollo & Sons, marine engineers. In 1882 joined Midland Railway locomotive department at Carlisle. Locomotive Superintendent Maryport & Carlisle Railway from 1904 to 1922. Died 19 July 1936. J. Instn Loco Engrs, 1936, 26, 508 obituary noted that "considerate to subordinates and respected". W. Noel Davies (Talbot LNER recalled) pp 78-9 noted that Adamson was a very genial man and at the time of his visit a new 0-6-0 was being onstructed in the "little" erecting shop.

Alexander, A.
Designer of the Fell locomotives used on the Mont Cenis Railway: see Ransom The Mont Cenis Fell Railway. 1999. Worked for Brassey Jackson & Betts at its Canada Works in Birkenhead. Also designer of snowploughs both for use in Canada and on Mont Cenis Railway. After leaving Mont Cenis project joined Worcester Engine Co..

Anderson, Alexander
Born in 1859; served his apprenticeship at Hyde Park Works, receiving his technical training at Glasgow Technical College. He spent his whole life with the North British Locomotive Company at Hyde Park Works, rising by stages until he became General Works Manager. Elected member in 1920, On retirement in 1931, after 62 years' service, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Institution in recognition of his long association and service to the Institution in Scotland. Died on 18th Deceniber 1936. Obituary: J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1937, 27, 684.

Anderson, Harry Percival Harvey
Inventor of compression condendsing system: applied to N class 2-6-0 No. A816 as described in Holcroft's Locomotive adventure Chap. 8. Patents financed by Robert Julius Petersen, a stockbroker, and many involved John McCallum of Glasgow. System applied to stationary electricity generating plant and in ships. Many patents mostly applicable to marine applications. When applied to locomotives it is normally quoted as the "Anderson system". The latest British patent appears to have been: 336,599 An improved method of conserving heat in a steam power plant, with Steam Heat Conservation Co. and John McCallum. Published 13 October 1930. There are many more mostly with McCallum and some with Petersen (as applicant). Anderson died in 1938 according to Holcroft: "a broken-hearted man"..

Andrews, Robert
First Locomotive Superintendent of the Somerset & Dorest Railway. Appears to have been closely supervised by Frederick George Slessor, Engineer of the Somerset Central Railway, and was in sole charge of mechanical engineering between the departure of Andrews until the appointment of B.S. Fisher as Locomotive Superintendent in 1874. Barrie and Clinker The Somerset & Dorset Railway. 1978.

Angus, Robert Nichol
Locomotive Foreman of the North Staffordshire Railway from 1847 to 1874 when the post was redesignated Locomotive Superintendent. This he held until his death in 1875. He was succeeded by Charles Clare.Not in Marshall: see Railway Archive (1) p. 71.

Appleby, Henry  
T. Houghton Wright: In the Days of Gooch. Rly Mag., 1898, 3, 345-52. noted that the shed foreman at Swindon in the early 1850s was Mr. Henry Appleby, who came from Stephenson's with the North Star, a real North Countryman. Apprenticed at Swindon under Gooch and took charge of Locomotive Department at Chippenham in 1857. Locomotive Superintendent of West Cornwall Railway and briefly its General Manager. Then Divisional Superintendent MSLR at Sheffield. Locomotive superintendent of the Monmouthshire Railway & Canal Co.: see Rodney Hall Br. Rly J., 1984 (2), 33 et seq. Took over from Richard Laybourne in 1868 until GWR took over working the line in 1875. . McDermot History of the Great Western Railway rev. Clinker.. Appleby was also consultant to the Neath & Brecon Railway. From 1875 was Locomotive Superintendent South Wales Division of GWR. Appointed Locomotive Superintendent Waterford & Limerick Railway in 1882. In 1884 Appleby was responsible for attracting J.G. Robinson to be his assistant. Following a serious accident in 1888 he retired to England in 1889 where he died in December aged only 52. David Jackson and  Lowe.

Arbuthnott, Robert
Educated Cheltenham College. Apprenticeship at Vulcan Foundry. Assistant Works Manager Nasmyth Wilson from 1926. Assistant to Managing Director North Brtish Locomotive Co. from 1946 and Joint Managing Director.
Presidential Addtress Instn. Loco. Engrs. 1958

Archbutt, R.C.
Last Resident Locomotive Superintendent SDJR: 1913-30. . Barrie and Clinker The Somerset & Dorset Railway. 1978..

Armstrong, J.E. [Jack]
Draughtsman at Hawthorn, Leslie in Newcastle and probably responsible for design of Snaigow and Durn for Highland Railway and overall style of "Cumming" designs on Highland Railway. Red-haired, volatile Geordie who was antagonistic towards Chief Draughtsman at Hawthorn, Leslie, namely John Hobson. Became Chief Engineer Scarab Oil Co. from 17 August 1918. Robert Sutton was subordinate to Armstrong and also left to join Scarab..
Atkins, Philip. Hawthorn, Leslie and the Highland Railway. Backtrack, 1998, 12, 141-4.

Ashman, William
Lowe cites Somerset County Herald for 28 August 1825 to suggest that Ashman of Clandown Colliery made a locomotive to haul coal from Radstock to Midford, but cast iron rails broke.

Aston, William
Marshall notes that Aston was born in Ironbridge, Shropshire in 1829 and died in Oswestry, Shropshire on 25 February 1901 aged 71. The 1881 Census describes him as the Manager of the Cambrian Railways Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works in Oswestry. After an apprenticeship at Sharp Stewart, Manchester, he worked under Ramsbottom at Crewe. In 1865 he became draughtsman on the Cambrian Railways at Oswestry under Alexander Walker, Locomotive Superintendent, whom he succeeded in April.1879. His appointment was not fully ratified until June 1884. He adopted the locomotive livery of 'invisible green', a greenish black. In April 1888 the locomotives from the Mid Wales Railway were taken into Cambrian stock making a total of 58 of many types by various manufacturers. The engines, including those built to Aston's specifications, worked well, and he designed some good rolling stock, but the directors were not satisfied with the running of Oswestry works. In 1898 V. Raven of the NER was asked to report which led to the Board deciding, on 21 December 1898, to ask for Aston's resignation from 25 March 1899. He was succeeded by H. E. Jones.

Christiansen, R., and Miller, R.W. The Cambrian Rs V 1 1967, V 2 1968;
The R Eng 6.1901 pp 161-2
Nature of Aston household, which lacked servants, from 1881 Census: Backtrack 14, 637.
See G.A. Sekon. Rly Mag 3 313-28.
See Marshall: Biographical dictionary

Attock, Frederick
According to obituary in Min. Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs 150 Attock was born on 10 February 1842 and died at Windermere on 21 May 1902. He was apprenticed under his father George Attock, Superintendent of the Carriage & Wagon Department of the GER. He succeeded his father in 1874. In 1877 he became Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the LYR, following the retirement of Charles Fay until he resigned due to illness on 22 October 1895 and the function was taken over by the CME, Aspinall. He was responsible for taking LYR carriages from 4 to 6-wheel to bogie construction. He arranged for all coaches to be fitted with continuous footboards, and was responsible for ensuring that all passenger stock was equipped with the vacuum brake by 31 May 1888. He appeared to be involved with the demonstration of the Lovatt Eames on the L&YR..

Patents
axlebox

Attock, George
Patent
2145/1863. [Steel or rubber springs between bodies and frames].
Refers back to 1733/1853.

Auld, John
John Auld (K.J. Cook: Swindon steam) had been Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Barry Railway and came to Swindon as the Docks Assistant to the CME (Collett), but when Stanier left for the LMS Auld became Assistant CME, although six months older than Collett. Cook does not consider the strangeness of this choice and suggests that Collett was hardly on top of his work at this time. Nevertheless, Cook notes that Auld was a "very charming man, respected by all". His eventual retirement in July 1941 forced Collett to retire.

Aveling, Thomas
Founder of agricultural engineering business established in 1861 and manufactured locomotives derived from traction engines between 1864 and 1926. Lowe cited R.H. Clark The development of the English traction engine.

Surnames beginning Ba

Bage, Edward
Locomotive Superintendent Taff Vale Railway: 1841-2: Lowe

Bailey, George Herbert
Born Bristol 12 October 1883. Died Parkstone 13 May 1960. Educated Merchant Venturers' Technical College. Joined drawing office of Metropolitan Co in Saltley. In 1919 became Chief Draughtsman at Leeds Forge. Became Chief Engineer (Design) at Metropolitan-Cammell.

Bain, David
Boarn at Isauld in Caithness in 1855 and died in Bickley on 18 September 1933. Apprenticed with Neilson & Co between 1875-9. Joined NER at Gateshead as a draughtsman; in 1887 became Manager of Carriage & Wagon Works at York, and in 1890 became Carriage & Wagon Superintendent of NER. He moved to a similar post on the Midland Railway in 1903 where he was renowned for his superb sleeping and dining cars. He also introduced electric lighting, the rolling stock for the Lancaster-Morecambe-Heysham service and electric power in the carriage & wagon works. He retired in 1919. Marshall.

Baister, Charles [Charlie]
Everett (portrait p. 53) states that was born in Darlington in 1855 and was apprenticed at the Stockton & Darlington Railway North Road Works between 1869 and 1876. Then he left to gain experience both at the "SECR" (which did not then exist) and at sea, but returned to the NER in 1881. By 1886 he was Locomotive Foreman at Stockton, but in 1893 he became an assistant to Raven when they developed a form of audible cab (or fog) signalling: Patented jointly as: 23384/1895. Improved means for providing trains with automatic signals. Applied: 6 December 1895. Published: 15 August 1896.

Barclay, Andrew
Born in Dalry, Ayrshire in 1814. His father was a millwright in Kilmarnock, working for a carpet manufacturer. His son joined him in this trade, but at 14 became an apprentice learning tin and copper smithing and plumbing. In 1840 he set up a general engineering business in Kilmarnock and eventually constructed the Caledonia Works. Locomotives were manufactured from 1859, mainly 0-4-0STs for collieries and ironworks, but some were also supplied to the GSWR and CR. Shields (ILE Paper 498) noted that was working with his draughtsman Alex Morton on jet condensers from 1854. By 1875 some 160 locomotives had been produced and the firm employed 400. He was an excellent engineer but poor businessman. He died in October 1900.

See Syddall. Banking on Barclay's Steam World, 2003 (187, January), 58-62.

Barker, Edward D.
Invented a hydraulic brake which was tried on the Great Eastern Railway and was evaluated at the Newark Barke Trials of 1875. Problems were encoutered with freezing and with the use of salt to inhibit this.
Rowatt, T. Railway brakes.Trans Newcomen Soc.,1927, 8, 19-32
Winship, Ian R. Some nineteenth century brakes. Rly Mag., 1987, 133, 162.

Barker, Eric G.
Locomotive Superintendent Wirral Railway. Started apprenticeship on MSLR in 1884. In 1888 moved to Dubs in Glasgow. In 1890 joined Running Department of NBR. Appointed Locomotive Superintendent of Wirral Railway in 1892 and from 1894 added permanent way and signalling to his reponsibilities.

The locomotives and carriages of the Wirral Railway. Rly Mag., 1902, 11, 131

Barlow, George
Driver of Green Goddess (15in gauge Pacific) for over thirty years and Operating Manager of the RH&DR until his retirement in 1981. See Snell's One man's railway..

Bartholemew, G.
In charge of Holmes Works of Sheffield & Rotherham Railway taken over by Midland Railway in 1844, (Radford)

Bell, Norman Forster
Born Ratho on 27 May 1873. Educated George Watson's College. Apprenticed Ramages & Ferguson, Leith 1891-7. Obituary J. Instn Loco Engrs, 1934, 24

Bellamy, George S.
Mechanical & Electrical Engineer for the LMS Northern Division from 1944. Previously Works Superintendent at Derby where he been a pupil. Radford notes that following service in the RE during WW1 he was resident locomotive inspector for the MR at Newcastle-on-Tyne for loocomotives constructed there. For a time he was Assistant Superintendent of Motive Power to J.E. Anderson at Euston. Keith Miles: LMS Journal, (12) 2..

Bellwood, John
Includes notes on the highly satisfactory B17 class (much better than the two-cylinder B2 rebulds) once they were overhauled at Doncaster, on water softening, and on the relief of the footplate crews to return to work after the ASLEF debacle in 1955. Portrait of author alongside F5 67191 at Maldon shed on 29 May 1955. Colchester shedmaster. Rlys South East, 1988, 1. 72-80. R.H.N. Hardy Startford forever. Part 24. Steam Wld, 2006 (234), 38 notes that Bellwood died of asbestosis in 1988.

Bentley, Walter Owen
Born in Hampstead on 16 September 1888 and died in Woking on 13 August 1971. Educated at Clifton College then a premium apprentice at Doncaster Works under H.A. Ivatt between 1905 and 1910. Thence better known as racing driver, known as "W.O." in motor sport and manufacturer of superb cars (automobiles). See ODNB entry by H.G. Pitt and article in Archive, 2004 (42) 3-18.

Billington, William Martin
Educated at Brighton College. In 1897 started as pupil at Kitson & Co. of Leeds. He worked as fireman on MR for nine months, He then spent 3 months on shed work, followed by 18 months in the drawing office at Derby. He then moved to the drawing office on the GCR.

Bischopp, G.D.
Chief Draughtsman Birmingham & Gloucester Railway at Bromsgrove: see Hunt and Essery. LMS Journal, 2007 (20) 52.

Black, William
According to Marshall born in Airdrie on 8 February 1823 and died in Newcastle upon Tyne on 12 July 1905. Founder with Thomas Hawthorn of Black, Hawthorn & Co.

Bollen, Percy
Leading, latterly Chief Draughtsman at Ashford: retired 1955. Involved in design of Raworth electric locomotives: see Tayler. Trans. Newcomen Soc., 1996, 68, 231-65. Mentioned in Bulleid's Bulleid (and illustrated on page 92) as instigator of 1-C-C-1 bogies adopted on Southern diesel-electric locomotives and then incoporated on British Railways class 40, 44, 45 and 46. Rutherford (Backtrack, 2008, 22, 100) describes this as the "turntable bogie" and implies was patented, but following patent isa only one traced so far.

747,017 Improvements relating to oil burners. with British Transport Commission. Applied 6 February 1953. Published 28 March 1956.
The snail-like pace is noteworthy between application and granting.

Booth, Henry
Marshall states that Booth was born in Liverpool on 4 April 1788 and died there on 28 March 1869. Booth was not a locomotive designer, but played an important part in locomotive history. As treasurer of the uncompleted Liverpool & Manchester Railway, he advised the Stephensons to work out and apply a multi-tubular boiler in the locomotive intended for the Rainhill Trials in 1829. Although the Frenchman Seguin was simultaneously working on a multi-tubular boiler, it seems that Booth thought of this idea independently, and in fact the Rocket was the first full-size locomotive to incorporate this vital innovation. R.H.G. Thomas in his history of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway states that James Neville had patented a tubular boiler in 1826, but that Booth and the Stephensons were probably unaware of this. Booth was the author of An account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway published in 1830 (Ottley 6404): see also Snell for an appreciation.. Rowatt Trans Newcomen Soc.1927, 8, 19 noted that Booth invented a form of the counter-pressure brake in 1836.

See: L.T.C. Rolt, George and Robert Stephenson (1960);
Marshall, C.F.D. The Rainhill Locomotive Trials of 1829. Trans Newcomen Soc. 1928/9, 9, 78-93.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry by Francis Watt revised by Ralph Harrington
Portrait in Thomas page 20

Bore, Richard
Carriage Superintendent at Wolverton until his retirement in 1886 when replaced by C.A. Park. Bore was resistant to bogies and adopted Webb's radial axles on outermost axles of his eight wheelers. See Chacksfield's F.W. Webb

Borrows, Edward
Had been assistant to James Cross on St Helens Railway. Established Providence Works in St Helens in 1865 and started locomotive manufacture in 1872. About forty locomotives built up to 1913. Locomotives were highly distinctive 0-4-0 tank engines of "Borrows type". (Lowe)

Bouch, William
According to Marshall William Bouch, elder brother of Thomas Bouch (engineer of the first Tay Bridge), was born in 1813 (according to Pearce at Thursby, but registered in Whitehaven) and died in Weymouth on 19 January 1876. He was apprenticed at Robert Stephenson & Co. and then served in the Russian navy. In 1840 he was appointed Locomotive Engineer of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Wil!iam Bouch in 1860 designed the first true British 4-4-0 type locomotives for the Stainmore route. About the same year he designed a feedwater heater known as 'Bouch's coffee can', in which the water was warmed in a sleeve around the chimney. According to Hoole (North Road Locomotive Works) Bouch also innovated the steam brake, the counter-pressure system of braking and a combined lever and screw reversing mechanism. Pearce implies that the autonomy of the S&DR ceased with the retirement of Bouch. According to Carling Trans Newcomen Soc., 55, 10 Bouch was granted Patent No. 64 of 10 January 1871.
See: Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Review, April 1923, Aug. 1925.

Bown,  Frederick Cecil
Born 17 February 1893, elected a Member in 1921. Educated Shepton Mallet Grammar School and Derby Technical College. Part of his engineering apprenticeship was served in the Somerset and Dorset Railway Locomotive Shops at Highbridge and completed on the Midland Railway at Derby. After a period in the Drawing Office in 1914 he enlisted on the outbreak of war. In 1916 he was transferred to the Ministry of Munitions as a Section Director (Production) of munition gauges. In 1919, after demobilisation, he joined the Central Cordoba Railway Company as chief of the Technical Office, and in 1922 was appointed Locomotive Running Superintendent. In 1928 he joined the Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railway as Locomotive Running Superintendent. He died in Buenos Aires on 21 January 1937. J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1937, 27, 684.

Names beginning "Br"

Brandreth, Thomas Shaw
Marshall notes that born in Cheshire on 24 July 1788 and died in Worthing on 27 May 1873. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was shown to be brilliant. His scientific interests led him into friendship with George Stephenson and he was a director of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway on which he proposed to employ the Cycloped, a horse-powered "locomotive". ODNB entry by Stanley Lane Poole revised by R.C. Cox..

Brewer, Godfrey
Mechanical engineer Leek & Manifold: portrait in Lindsey Porter's Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway. 2002.

Briggs, Sir George
Dabeg Company: see Cox Locomotive panorama Plate 21.

Brunton, William
According to Marshall Brunton was born in Lochwinnoch on 26 May 1777 and died in Camborne on 5 October 1851. He is a contemporary of Blenkinsop. Dendy Marshall notes that he was a mechanic at Boulton & Watt between 1796 and 1808 and left there for the Butterley Ironworks. William Brunton devised a four-wheel steam locomotive the drive of which was transmitted by levers to two walking feet: this was patented (3700 of 22 May 1813). This machine worked successfully at Newbottle in 1813 or 1814. In 1815 a new boiler was fitted but this exploded, causing several fatalities. This incident, which occurred on 31 July 1815, is regarded as the first railway disaster. After this he practiced as a civil engineer and participated in several industrial ventures. Lowe suggests Brunton may have been Locomotive Superintendent on the Taff Vale Railway for a short time in the 1840s. .

See: Transactions of the Newcomcn Society, 1921/2, 2, 118..

Buddicom, William Barber
Born in Liverpool on 1 July 1816 and died in Mold on 4 August 1887 according to Marshall. Apprenticed to Mather Dixon & Co.of Liverpool. Better known in continental Europe than in his native Britain Buddicom was originally locomotive superintendent of the Grand Junction Railway at Edgehill, Liverpool from 12 January 1840, but left on 31 August 1841 to begin private locomotive building in France. (Reed). His works manager at Edge Hill there was Alexander Allan, but according to Reed it was Buddicom who in the early 1840s devised the 'Allan' or Crewe type of locomotive to obviate crank axle failures. After Buddicom left to found his own locomotive-building company, he received a contract from the engineer Joseph Locke, then building the Paris & Rouen Railway, to supply Allan-type locomotives to that Company. This was the first of several French railways to order these sturdy machines,which on the Continent soon became known as the 'Buddicom' type. See: Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Review, Feb. 1941. Biography by George W. Carpenter revised by Mike Chrimes in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Burstall, Timothy
1776-1860. Built Perseverance for Rainhill trials, but locomotive damaged in transit (Lowe). Sekon's Evolution of the steam locomotive (p. 37) notes that Burstall of Edinburgh (Lowe states Leith) was a manufacturer of steam road coaches. See C.F. Dendy Marshall History of the railway locomotive down to the year 1831: Chapter 15 including Figs. 78-81: including a portrait. Marshall lists two patents: 5090/1825 and 5405/18126... .

Burton, Duncan
Died 30 December 1993. Born 1920. Eductaed Hamiilton Academy. Apprenticeship at St Rollox from 1936. WW2 army service. Shedmaster Carstairs. Maintenance foreman, Ferryhill from 1954. Eventually mainly modern traction. Deputy at Haymarket from 1966. Retired in October 1982. Obituary True Line, 1994 (46) 5-9.

Burtt, George Frank
According to Marshall Burtt was born in Greenwich on 22 March 1871 and died in Brighton on 22 August 1949. Burtt was a founding Member of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers and was the historian of the locomotives of the LBSCR. Marshall gives an excellent account of how his chief (R.J. Billinton) forced his initial literary efforts to be published under a pseudonym.

He was presented with an illuminated address by the Institution of Locomotive Engineers for his services to the Instution (J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1932, 22, 236-7) portrait

Bush, George
Locomotive Superintendent Taff Vale Railway: 1840-1: Lowe

Surnames beginning Ca

Caillet, F.L.

French engineer who invented spring system for long coupled locomotives: see Slaughter

Caldwell, J.W. [Jimmy]
Started at Horwich. Caldwell had been Chief Locomotive Draughtsman of LMS since 1945 and so continued until 1956. It was he who had had a lot to do with the form which the Ivatt Class 2 and Class 4 engines had taken, and far from showing any resistance to the somewhat American trend in the standard designs, he had sometimes to be gently restrained from a wish to see even more bizarre features introduced. Represented London Midland Regions on team which designed British Railways standard locomotives. Cox. British Railways standard steam locomotives. 1966, especially p.71

Calthrop, Everard Richard
Born in Bourne in 1857 and died in London on 30 March 1927. Educated at Uppingham. Briefly joined Robert Stephenson & Co, but then apprenticed at Crewe. In 1879 joined GWR, but in 1882 moved to GIPR where he developed his ideas on light narow-gauge railways, notably the Barsi Light Railway of 1897 (Marshall). In Britain his ideas were incorporated in the Leek & Manifold Light Railway (see review of excellent book in Backtrack, 2007, 21, 59). . His ideas on locomotives are partly considered in Ransom's Narrow gauge steam. and by Rutherford in Backtrack, 2007, 21, 437. Obituary Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs., 1926, 113. Portrait in Lindsey Porter's Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway. 2002. See also W.J.K. Davies' Light railways. See also John Bradford Corrie..
Book
Light railway construction. 1897 (reprinted 1997)
Patents
28354/1907 Improvements in or relating to transportation cars for carrying road or railway vehicles. Published 11 February 1908.
3075/1905. Improvements in vehicles for conveying on railways of narrow gauge, broad gauge railway or other vehicles, and in the method of or means for getting vehicles to be carried into position upon and removing them from the carrying vehicles. Published 11 January 1906.
25085/1904. Improvements in means or devices for securing railway or tramway rails to their supporting beds or sleepers. Published 14 September 1905.
16227/1903. Improvements in or relating to central buffer and draw gear apparatus for railway and like vehicles. Published 22 July 1904.
17525/1896. Improved means for conveying on railways railway or other trucks and common road vehicles, with John Charles Taite. Published 10 July 1897.
17199/1896. Improvements in or in connection with buffers and draw-bars for railway and other similar vehicles, with William Richard Sumption Jones. Applied 4 August 1896. Published 31 July 1897.
6433/1896. Improved means of holding window and louvre sashes for railway carriages and other vehicles, suitable also for holding ticket windows, stove dampers, and the like, with John Charles Taite. Published 13 March 1897.
1066/1896. Improved vehicles for conveying on light railways common road vehicles, or railway or other trucks, whether loaded or not, with John Charles Taite. Published 15 January 1897.
20429/1895. Improvements in or in connection with buffers and draw-bars for railway and similar vehicles, with William Richard Sumption Jones. Applied 29 October 1895. Published 24 October 1896.

Cameron, John
According to Marshall born in Wigtownshire, educated in Inverness and died in Monkseaton on 17 March 1938. Apprenticed to Stroudley at Brighton, then moved to LSWR and in 1885 to the TVR as Works Manager. He became Locomotive Superintendent of the TVR from 1911 until his retirement in 1922.

Cameron, K.R.M.
Running & Maintenance Officer, Scottish Region (Cox British Railways standard steam locomotives). See also Rogers Thompson & Peppercorn.

Campbell, Ernest Thomas
Educated in Cork. Joined GS&WR at Inchicore as Draughtsman in 1901. In 1906 left for Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock as leading draughtsman; moved to Hudswell Clarke of Leeds as chief draughtsman, where he stayed until 1920 when he moved to John Fowler as chief locomotive draughtsman. In 1924 he became leading draughtsman at Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth, where he worked on diesel traction latterly. He died on 30 January 1935. (Instn Loco. Engrs obit)

Campbell, James
Marshall states that born in Greenock on 19 June 1838 and died in Leeds on 12 October 1905. Son of Alexander Campbell, Manager of the Railway Foundry in Leeds. Apprenticed to his father. In 1858 entered service of East India Railway at Howrah works. In 1864 he became manager of Hunslet Engine Co. when it was established and took control of the company in 1875. He took a great interest in the establishment of the Yorkshire College which was to became Leeds University.

Campbell, Robert
Locomotive superintendent Maryport & Carlisle Railway from 1878 to 1893 (Lowe).

Cantlie, Kenneth
Kenneth Cantlie was born in London, the youngest son of Sir James Cantlie, specialist in tropical diseases (died 1926 ODNB) who had worked in China and had also developed a strong sympathy for those who suffered poverty and ill-health in Britain.. Kenneth Cantlie was educated in Aberdeen and following WW1, was a C.J. Bowen Cooke pupil at Crewe 1916-20. He then worked on railways in Argentina and in Jodhpur. He was appointed technical adviser to the Chinese Minister of Railways in 1929. He returned to Britain in 1937 and during WW2 was involved in loading tanks onto railway wagons. Snell's One man's railway page 51 notes Major Cantlie's involvement with the RHDR during WW2.  In 1948 Cantlie was appointed the overseas representative of the Locomotive Manufacturers' Association. He advised on the establishment of the locomotive works at Chitteranjan in India. He was mainly responsible for the Chinese 4-8-4 project: see Atkins The Golden age of locomotive building. Chapter 8 and Newcomen Society paper. He worked for the British Caprotti company in the post-WW2 period. He died on 11 February 1986, aged 86.. .

Carrett, W.E.
Chief draughtsman at E.B. Wilson and involved in design of locomotives with intermediate crank axles: see Joy diaries

Carrier, Frank G.
See letter by Philip Atkins BackTrack, 14, p.371 noting his letter concerning the Paget locomotive published in 1920, his interest in photography and influence on appearance of BR Standard locomotives. Cox (Speaking...) noted that Carrier produced beautiful cross-section perspective drawings of the BR Standard locomotives. According to Riddles, (Rogers: Express) F.G. Carrier, a section leader in the Development and Design branch of the Derby Drawing Office, was largely responsible for what both Stanier's and Riddles' engines looked like.

Carson, James Irving
Locomotive superintendent West Hartlepool Harbour & Railway. (Lowe): forenames from Loco. Rly Carr. Rev., 1929, 35, 27-8.

Cartazzi, F.I.
Formerly of the Great Northern Railway in England, in 1866 Cartazzi (Cortazzi) became locomotive superintendent of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. In general, Indian locomotive superintendents or, as they were later called, chief mechanical engineers, had little scope for initiative in locomotive design, which was the concern of each company's consulting engineers in London and the British locomotive builders. Cartazzi, however, made his mark by the invention of the Cartazzi radial axlebox for trailing carrying wheels. This, which was adopted throughout the world, rested the axleboxes on inclined planes, so that excessive sideplay tended to push the axle-boxes upwards as well as outwards. The weight of the locomotive, tending to press the axlebox downwards, was thereby utilized to return the wheel and axle assembly to its central position. Previously the sideplay allowed to the trailing axle as a means of negotiating curved track had caused in many designs an excess of side-swing. Subsequent designers improved the Cartazzi principle with new spring arrangements.

See: Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Review, March 1932.

Casey, Michael Vince
Born 25 May 1927: Chief Engineer, Channel Tunnel Rail Link, British Rail, 1989–90. Educated: Glossop Grammar School and The College, Swindon. Premium Apprentice, GWR Locomotive Works, Swindon, 1944–49; University of London External Degree Course, 1949–52; British Rail Western Region: Locomotive Testing and Experimental Office, Swindon, 1952–58; Supplies and Contracts Dept, Swindon, 1958–61; Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer’s Dept, Paddington, 1961–63; Area Maintenance Engineer, Old Oak Common, 1963–66; Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer’s Dept, Paddington, 1966–71; Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer: Scottish Region, Glasgow, 1971–76; Eastern Region, York, 1976–78; Engineering Director, British Rail CLtd, 1978–82; Director, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering , BRB, 1982–87; Project Director (BR Engineering ), 1987–89 Who's Who.

Paper
And now … for something rather different . Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs, Part D: Transport Engineering, 1987, 201, (D4), 245-56.

Cauchi, William
Consultant to the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway where he influenced design of Greenly's Sir Aubrey Brocklebank. See Davies The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway and Steel's The miniature world of Henry Greenly: latter states that Cauchi, a man of rather retiring nature, had served on the LCDR.

Cecil, S.A. (Hon.)
Locomotive Superintendent of the Metropolitan District Railway between 1879 and 1884. (C.H. Ellis: Some classic locomotives, Chap. 4)

Chambers, A.
Inventor in 1867? (according to Rowatt) of a modified form of Fay's mechanical brake: evaluated on North London Railway. Rowatt, T. Railway brakes.Trans Newcomen Soc.,1927, 8, 19-32.

Chanter, John
One of many who attempted to develop coal burning fireboxes. Chanter's patented design had three brick partititions and Peter Borrie & Co. of Dundee constructed a demonstration 2-2-2 for Chanter (Lowe). Multi-tubular boiler designed to burn coal described by Markham in his important paper on coal burning (Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs., 1860): Markham recorded problems with priming: locomotive tried on Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway, but later sold to railway in South Wales. .

Patent
7306 Boiler 17 February 1837 with John Gray
Furnace spanned whole width of boiler

Church, William
Lowe lists Dr Church as a locomotive builder, but he appeared to be a designer of a locomotive for Samuel Aspinall Goddard which was built by Horton of Brierly Hill, or according to Harry Jack Locomotives of the LNWR Southern Division by John Inshaw of Birmingham (not in Lowe). Dickinson A short history of the steam engine (1938) p. 131 considered that Church's efforts had been directed towards steam carriages. Furthermore, according to Jack it was a "quaint" 2-2-0WT with a patent boiler. Jack's Figure 10 is unlike the 0-2-2WT of Fig 83 in Lowe. It ran trials on the London & Birmingham Railway in January 1838, but these were unsuccessful, although according to Jack it reached 60 mile/h! It was then tried on the Grand Junction Railway whilst named Victoria. It was fitted with piston valves. Subsequently the locomotive now known as Surprise was tried on the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway. It exploded at Bromsgrove on 10 November 1840 where Hewison, noting the Official Report, records that Goddard was hoping to sell the locomotive to the BGR. It appeared on the Swansea Vale Railway in the late 1850s by which it had become some form of 0-6-0T.

Clare, Charles
Locomotive Superintendent of NSR in succession to R.N. Angus. Not in Marshall. See Railway Archive, (1), 71.

Clark, John
Inventor of chain brake in 1862, adopted and developed by Webb of LNWR. Was working on NLR and Metropolitan Railway by 1866; also used on GNR, GWR and GIPR: Rowatt, T. Railway brakes.Trans Newcomen Soc.,1927, 8, 19-32

Clark, Thomas F.
According to Hennessey  and Lowe designer of Metropolitan Railway 0-4-4T (Locomotive & Carriage Superintendent in 1896). Jackson notes that Clark was appointed at a paltry £250 per annum, but that he was responsible for successful modifications to the locomotives. He lasted until 1905 when Charles Jones took over.

Clayton, Nathaniel
Born 25 August 1811 at Lincoln; died Lincoln 21 December 1890. Clayton started a small iron foundry in Lincoln, next to the boat-building yard of Shuttleworth and Godwin, in which his brother-in-law, Joseph Shuttleworth, was a partner. In 1842 Shuttleworth formed a partnership with Clayton as Clayton, Shuttleworth & Co., and they established the Stamp End foundry, Lincoln. At first they undertook small contracts, making pipes, bridges, and railway equipment. ODNB entry by Jonathan Brown.

Clement, Joseph
1779-1884; Rutherford Backtrack, 2006, 20, 626 notes that he was the son of a Westmorland hand-loom weaver and gained his early engineering experience in Scotland before joining Joseph Bramah in London in 1814, but following Bramah's death he joined Henry Maudslay as his chief draughtsman before setting up on his own account at Newington Butts. Here he worked for Charles Babbage on his difference engines and for Daniel Gooch on a "testing wagon". He laso manufactured a superb one-eighth scale model of a Firefly class 2-2-2.

Clements, Henry
Lowe states was Locomotive Superintendent of Taff Vale Railway from December 1846 to January 1858.

Click, John G.
Born in London on 24 April 1926. Premium apprentice under Bulleid: interviewed by the highly courteous CME in 1943 (Steam Wld, 1982 (19), 26-30. Portrait. Further portrait (p. 81 Part2) and information (notably that he became Assistant Works Manager at Eastleigh, in charge of Rugby Testing Plant, and then left railway seervice to teach. from Roberston's: Leader: the full story which also contains a large number of Click's photographs. There is a Click Collection at the NRM. Nigel Harris (Steam Wld, 1991 (54) 18) gives further personal information and reproduced some of his photographs from the NRM In the Drawing Office he worked on major components of the BR class 4 4-6-0 and 2-6-4T. He was a great admirer of Bulleid and as well as his involvement with the Leader he weint to Ireland to assist with the turf burner. He resigned from British Railways in 1965 and after six years with an engineering company he trained as a school teacher in 1971, teaching engineering at a school in Chislehurst. He was scornful of those who wrote about railway history or engineering from a secondhand standpoint. He was a perfectionist, had a delightful sense of humour, but was not an easy man to get to know well..

Surnames beginning "Co"

Cobb
Assistant Motive Power Superintendent, Southern Railway. Holcroft's Locomotive adventure notes their joint efforts in assessing the performance of the Woolwich Moguls in the Exeter area, and in inspecting a Sentinel locomotive shunting on the GWR at Park Royal, and of the various options for pull-and-push (Holcroft's terminology) control.

Cochrane, Thomas (10th Earl of Dundonald)
Thomas Cochrane was born at Annfield in Lanarkshire on 14 December 1775. He joined the Navy in 1800 and was put in command of Speedy. He had a complicated and adventurous Naval career which included his involvement with the Chilean Navy to assist in the installation of Don Bernardo O' Higgins as the country's first president. During this time he briefly attended Edinburgh University where he gained an interest in steam propulsion. In 1812 he eloped with Katharine Barnes whom he married in 1812. He became the 10th Earl of Dundonald in 1832 and died on 31 October 1859, having become a Rear Admiral. He was involved in the construction of warships for the Chilean navy and in the development of the rotary steam engine. See Barnes: BackTrack 13, 586.

Patents
Rotary engine 20 December 1833.
6530 Steam engines, propulsion of vessels &c 20 June 1834.
6923 Propulsion of carriages, vessels &c [5 November 1835] 5 May 1836

Cocks, C.S.
Atkins (Backtrack 15 445) notes that Cocks had been employed in the drawing office at Gorton (former GCR) until 1927 when he moved to Doncaster, but he did not know Bulleid during his LNER days and transferred to the Southern Railway in 1937 where he had to interpret his chief's unusual wishes, especially those relating to the Leader class. In 1949 he transferred to Derby as chief draughtsman in succession to Coleman. He was a member of the design team for the British Railways Standard locomotives, and was a member of the committee which organized the 1948 interchange trials. (Cox: Standard), who also observed that "Finally on the Southern was the combination of C.S. Cocks with W. Durban who had both been tried in the fire of Bulleid's unconventional activities, and who had only now been released from the agonies of trying to design something workable out of the ideas behind the "Leader" locomotive."

Papers
History of Southern locomotives to 1938. J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1948, 38, 749-822. Discussions: 823-60. (Paper No. 481).
One of the four key surveys of locomotive design prepared at around the time of Nationalization.

Modern steam locomotives. Coventry Engineering Society J., 1937, 18, 39-47. Disc. 47-52.

Discussion on::
Cox, E,S. and Johansen, F.C. Locomotive frames.
Pp. 126-9: experience with Merchant Navy class

Coker, George
Chief Draughtsman at Wolverton from approximately 1877 until he retired in 1911. He was an examiner in carriage building for the City & Gulds and taught at the Science & Art Institute in Wolverton. He was a Liberal and designer of the Congrgational Church in Wolverton.. See Backtrack, 10, 622.
Rly Gaz., 1911 (April), p. 103.

Colclough, E.
Works Manager, Oswestry Works, Cambrian Railways. Photograph p. 113 Green Cambrian Railways: presumably father of J. Colclough, ex-Preium Apprentice.

Collinson, Arthur
First cousin of T.W. and Wilson Worsdell. Born in Halifax: educated at Quaker school in Ackworth and at Bootham, York. Apprenticed at Gateshead 1889-93. Chief Inspector of Materials 1894-7; Chief Boiler Inspector 1897-1900, followed by being appointed Manager York Locomotive Works. Became Raven's Assistant in 1902. Everett page 67

Colville, Alexander
Lowe suggests may have been one of many locomotive superintendents of Taff Vale Railway in 1840s.

Copperthwaite, R.A.
Appointed Works Manager North Road Works, Darlington 1 June 1922, prior to then had been Works Manager Gateshead. On formation of LNER also given charge of Gateshead Works and Springhead Works at Hull. See Hoole:North Road Locomotive Works, p. 70

Corrie, John Bradford
Pupil of James Holden at Stratford Works from 1892. Chief assistant to Everard Calthrop worked on Barsi Railway and in Barbados. In 1899 set up J.B. Corrie & Co. Died 4 March 1939. Obituary J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1939, 29, 350.

Cotton, Leslie Robert
Died aged 58. Since 1947 had been depot engineer at Neasden (London Transport) where he was in charge of breakdown organization. He had joined London Electric Railway as a draughtsman in 1917. Obit J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1960, 50, 603.

Coulthard, William
Locomotive superintendent Maryport & Carlisle Railway from 1898 to 1904. (Lowe)

Craddock, Thomas
An Englishman, Thomas Craddock appears to be the first patentee (1846) of a system of locomotive compounding.

See : P. M. Kalla-Bishop, Tandem compound locomotives (1949).

Craig, William Grindley
Prior to becoming Locomotive superintendent of the Monmouthshire Railway & Canal Co (where acccording to Rutherford he received £400 per annum). Craig had been at Neath Abbey Iron Works which was an early constructor of locomotives.  Lowe suggests that may have been in charge of locomotives on Taff Vale Railway for a time in 1840s. Passed to Richard Laybourne  in 1854 when he became the second Locomotive Superintendent on the MSLR: he succeeded Peacock in 1854 and in turn was replaced by Sacre in 1859. He followed Beattie's work on attempting to burn coal rather than coke. (Lowe and RCTS Locomotives of the LNER. Part 1). . McDermot History of the Great Western Railway rev. Clinker. Early exploiter of rubber suspension: see Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs., 1857, 4, 45.

Crew, Malcolm Hillier
Educated at Cheltenham College and at Owen's College, Manchester. In 1895 he became a pupil of J.A.F. Aspinall, following which he became a draughtsman at Mather & Platt. He then moved to the SECR where he became Assistant Works Mnager at Battersea Locomotive Works and moved with the works to Ashford. He resigned in 1925 to live in Malvern and died there on 1 June 1932. J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1932, 22, 508.

Crewze, William
Briefly Locomotive Superintendent on Birmingham & Gloucester Railway at Bromsgrove: killed when boiler wash-out plug failed: see Hunt and Essery. LMS Journal, 2007 (20) 52.

Cross, James
Born in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, on 22 February 1829 and died in Llangollen on 15 October 1894. Civil Engineer and Engineer of the St Helens Canal. When Locomotive Engineer of the St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway he built six locomotives at St Helens. Cross was instrumental in the successful introduction of the Giffard injector (see T.H. Shields, J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1950, 40, 597 (Paper 498). In 1864 he rented the works of the St Helens Railway and with Arthur Sinclair formed James Cross & Co.at the Sutton Engine Works (Lowe). Although locomotive building ended in about 1869 there was time to build the William Bridges Adams 2-4-2T White Raven with radial axle boxes and the first two Fairlie locomotives. Marshall.
Papers
On the structure of locomotive engines for ascending steep inclines in conjunction with sharp curves. Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, 1863/4, 23, 406. (Paper 1113)
2-4-2T

Cruikshank, James
Educated Richmond Grammar School. Apprenticed Thomas Peach Bros. Joined GWR at Hammersmith. Then went Egypt. Died February 1936 aged 55. J. Instn Loco Engrs., 1936, 26, 303.

Cumming, Christopher
Formerly of the North British Railway, Christopher Cumming was appointed Locomotive Superintendent of the Highland Railway in 1915, just as that Company was facing difficulties with the increased traffic of the First World War. Designer of the Clan class 4-6-0 in 1919, in 1917 he introduced to Britain the outside location of Walschaert's valve gear. He died in 1924 following resignation through illness in 1922.

See: C. Highet, Scottish Locomotive History 1831-1923 (1970).

Curtis, William Joseph
Patent
Generation of steam. 21 September 1837

Curtis's inventions for railways, steam-vessels...London, 1840.
Includes brakes and signals and low centre of gravity coach for London & Greenwich Railway (Ottley 3277)

Surnames beginning "Da"

Daglish, Robert (Senior)
Marshall. The elder Daglish was born in Northumberland on 21 December 1777 and died in Orrell, near Wigan on 28 December 1865. In 1804 he settled in Wigan as engineer to Lord Belcarres, becoming manager of the Haigh Foundry and Brock Mill Forge. He then became manager of the Orrell Colliery and built a railway to it where he introduced steam traction using a Blenkinsop and Murray rack type of locomotive known as the Yorkshire Horse. He also projected the Bolton & Leigh Railway opened in 1828. He was one of the projectors of, and a partner in, the St Helens Foundry See C.F. Dendy Marshall History of the railway locomotive down to the year 1831: Chapter 3 (Blenkinsop and Murray) the latter part of which is given over to Robert Daglish (Senior) and documents supporting his claim, including letters contained at Wigan Public Library and a letter by Benjamin Hick dated 30 September 1822 published in Kaleidoscope, or Literary and Scientific Mirror of 8 October 1822 (relating back to letters from Daglish in issue for 24 September). Ottley 403 cites J. Transport Hist., 1962, 5, 146-8 for article by J.H.M. Bankes and J.R. Harris: The first Lancashire locomotive.. .

Daglish, Robert (Junior)
The son was born in Wigan on 16 September 1808 and was apprenticed to Rothwell, Hick & Co. of Bolton. In 1830 Robert Daglish Jr joined Lee, Watson & Co, iron founders at St Helens who, in 1832, built an engine and machinery for working the inclines on the St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway. In 1837-8 he contracted for erection of engines, boilers and machinery for glass manufacture at Birmingham and St Helens. In about 1839 Daglish, with John Smith, undertook to work the traffic on the St Helens & Runcom Gap Railway and continued to do this until 1848, maintaining locomotives and rolling stock at Sutton shed at St Helens In 1846 he contracted for bridges on the Liverpool & Bury line of the LYR, including two large iron lattice girder bridges near Bolton, the first of their type. In 1849 Robert Daglish Jr & Co built the iron bridges for the Tithebarn Street extension of the LYR at Liverpool. From 1851 Daglish conducted the foundry business alone until 1869 when he took his nephew George H. Daglish into partnership. In 1852 he erected the coal drops at the LNWR docks at Garston on the Mersey. He was a director of the St Helens Canal & Railway Co, 1854-64, and of the LYR, 1876-83.Marshall. Lowe Supplement states that St Helens Railway & Canal Co. locomotives Nos 13 Forth (four coupled of 1852) and No. 12 Saracen (six coupled of 1858) were constructed at the St Helens Foundry as well as other locomotives for industrial railways. Robert junior died in London on 6 May 1883.

Dalby, William Ernest.
According to A.J. Mullay (Streamlined steam, 1994) Dalby had been an engineering apprentice at Stratford Works, had then worked at Crewe before helping to establish the Engineering Department at Cambridge University. He served on the Bridge Stress Committee in the 1920s and is an extraordinary omission from the ODNB. His bibliography, notably on locomotive balancing is extensive (BLPC), and he was Nock's professor whilst he was at Imperial College. He retired due to ill health in 1931 and died on 25 June 1936 (Who Was Who)..

Daniels, Tom
Caprotti's invention was brilliant but flawed. The British Development of the valve gear, brought major changes in the poppet valves themselves, and in 1950 Tom Daniels (who had been trained at Swindon), Chief Engineer for Associated Locomotive Equipment, changed the camshaft design to include two exhaust cams instead of one, which could be moved (mechanically) in relation to each other, like the inlet cams, thus achieving complete variable valve actuation. The modified valve gear was fitted to the Duke of Gloucester (info from website).

Davidson, S.D.
Partner in Hawthorn's of Leith and holder of patents for narrow gauge locomotives, one of which Mountaineer worked at Levenseat Limeworks: see Rutherford Backtrack, 2007, 21, 358 and Ind. Rly Record, 1994, 12 (135).

Dewhurst, Paul Coulthard
Died on 20 January 1964 following a fall at his home in Cambridge when aged 80.. Trained in Locomotive Department of Midland Railway: worked as an engineer in South America and West Indies. Joined Newcomen Society in 1928 where he presented papers on Norris, Crampton and Fairlie locomotives (in note on posthumus paper on Fairlie locomotives Holcroft observed that Dewhurst had made a life-long study of unusual locomotives. . From Trans Newcomen Soc. obituary. Author of many pieces (some under DCP) in Loco. Rly Carr. Wagon Rev. Contributed to discussion of Paper 418 on diesel traction: J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1940, 30, p. 403..

De Winton, Jeffreys Parry
Worked for Preston Fawcett at the Phoenix Foundry in Liverpool in 1860s before joining Owen Thomas at Union Works in Caernarvon where locomotives were constructed mainly with vertical boilers. (Lowe).

Dodds, George
Engineer of the Monkland & Kirkintilloch Railway and instigator of Murdoch, Aitken constructing two Killingworth-type locomotives: Monkland and Kirkintilloch. See C.F. Dendy Marshall History of the railway locomotive down to the year 1831: Chapter 21 including Fig. 94. See also Ransom's Iron road.

Donaldson, Roderick D.
Born 1893. Educated Brighton College. In 1901 apprenticed to Baldwin. In 1904 moved to Robert Stephenson at Darlington, then in 1906 joined GCR running department. In 1909 went to India. Died 24 October 1934. Obit. J. Instn Loco Engrs., 1934, 24

Douglas, Archibald Bryce
Inventor of a form of valve gear (usually known as the Bryce-Douglas gear). He worked for the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. of Govan where the gear was used in marine engines. It lacked eccentrics and enabled the slide valves to be placed above the cylinders without the use of rocking shafts. It was fitted to a Dübs 4-4-0 exhibted at the Edinburgh International Exhibition of 1886: see Cornwell: Forty years... The valve gear is included in Shields' review in J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1943, 33, 368 (Paper 443)

Douglas, G.K.
According to Balkwill was inventor of the firehole deflector plate in 1858 when applied on locomotives of Birkenhead, Lancashire & Chester Junction Railway.

Downs, Wilson
RCTS Locomotives of the LNER Part 2B p. 87 notes that Downs was foreman at Consett shed. .
Patent
575,051: Improvements in track sanding apparatus for steam locomotives and other power-propelled vehicles. Applied 23 February 1944. Published 31 January 1946. with LNER

Drewry, John Percival Archibald
Died 23 April 1958, aged 66. Apprenticed Longhede, 1908-12. Specialised on carriage lighting on Southern Railway. Obit. J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1958, 48, 420..

Dubs, Henry
Dübs was born in Guntersblum, Hesse Darmstadt in Germany on 10 March 1816 and died in Glasgow on 24 April 1876. Marshall notes that he was apprenticed in a small workshop in Mainz. In 1834 he joined Reuleux in Aix-la-Chapelle where he became the shop manager when aged 21. Following a period in the drawing office of Sharp, Roberts in Manchester he became works manager of the Vulcan Foundry in 1842. He was briefly with Beyer Peacock before joining W.M. Neilson in Glasgow, but in 1865 he opened his own works in Glasgow.
Hunt, David. Locomotive builders to the Midland Railway. Midland Record, (21), 111-26.
Includes a portrait of Henry Dubs.

Surnames beginning letter "E"

Eager, John
Locomotive superintendent of the Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway. Apprentice at Bute Dock Workshops under Hurry Riches. From 1882-97 engineer on Cardiff steamers. From 1892-1901 engineer South Wales Mineral Railway. Appointed to BP&GVR in 1901. Loco. Rly Carr. Wagon Rev., 1910, 16, 12-13.

Edge, D.R.
Former Carriage & Wagon man replaced Bulleid as Assistant to Gresley. Had come from Great Central: having joined as apprentice fitter at Gorton in 1901 before transferring to C&W department.

Edwards, Thomas Harold
Born in Wolverhampton in 1882. Educated Tettenhall College and apprenticed with Electric Construction Co. Works Manager General Engine & Boiler Co. in New Cross. In 1914 appointed Works Manager and Assistant General Manager of the Yorkshire Engine Co. In 1927 joined Ruston & Hornsby as Personal Assistant to the Works Director and in 1929 became Works Manager of the Grantham Works where he remained until his retirement in 1950. Died 18 January 1958. Greatly involved in Grantham civic activities, including Rotary and the Model Engineering Society. Obituary J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1958, 48, 152..

Eling-Smith, James William
Educated at Derby School, and after serving in WW1 when he was awarded the Military Cross he graduated from Glasgow University in 1922. He was then a pupil in the Carriage & Wagon Works of the former Midland Railway at Derby. In 1924 he was appointed Oil Gas Inspector (Carriage and Wagon) and in 1927 moved to Newton Heath as Assistant Works Manager. In 1934 he became an Experimental Assistant at the Derby Carriage & Wagon Drawing Office. Following military service during WW2 he beacame Assistant Chief Draughtsman in the Derby Carriage & Wagon Drawing Office and became Chief Draughtsman. Between 1957 and his retirement in 1959 he was Chief Technical Assistant Carriage & Wagon. He died in 1963 aged 68. Obituary J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1963/4, 53, 838.

Ellis, Thomas
Engineer of Tredegar Iromworks. Copied Robert Stephenson 0-6-0 Britannia in 1832 to produce St David. Probably most notable for training Daniel Gooch.

Estall, George
Locomotive Superintendent Metropolitan District Railway: 1881 to 1905. Not in Marshall.

Evans, Josaih
Marshall states born in London in 1820 and died in Haydock in 1873. Son of Richard Evans who established Haydock Colliery and town thereat.. Apprenticed at Jones & Potts, then joined family business. Designed 0-6-0WT of which six were constructed at Haydock between 1869 and 1887. No. 3 Bellerophon of 1874 has survived.

Surnames beginning letter "F"

Fay, Charles
Born in 1812: apprenticed to Thomas Clarke Worsdell where coaches for L&MR were being produced. He was Carriage & Wagon Superintendent at Miles Platting/Newton Heath between 1846 and 1877. Charles Fay patented a screw brake in 1856 (Marshall states all papers lost in Miles Platting fire) with a shaft between each vehicle and tested it on Miles Platting incline. He was the discoverer of the important effect that skidding wheels are far less effective than revolving wheels for arresting the movement of vehicles He also made experimental use of containers for the movement of coal. He retired in 1877 and was replaced by Attock. He died in January 1900. Portrait on page 90 of Marshall Volume 2. See also Ottley 3206 & 3207: Fay and Newall doing battle with Galton over Newark brake trials..
Marshall, John. The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Volumes 2 & 3.
Rowatt, T. Railway brakes.Trans Newcomen Soc.,1927, 8, 19-32

Fenton, James (b. 1815)
Marshall states that born Dunkenny in Forfarshire on 29 August 1815 and died at Leamington on 22 April 1863. Educated Glasgow University and apprenticed to James Cook & Co of Glasgow as a mechanical engineer. He also received training in civil engineering under William Blackadder of Glamis. In June 1837 he worked as an assistant engineer on the GWR under Brunel and on 3 August 1840 he was appointed locomotive superintendent of the Manchester & Leeds Railway. On 20 January 1845 he left to become the acting engineer on the Leeds & Thirsk Railway, but in July 1846 he became manager of the Railway Foundry in Leeds where the name of the firm was changed from E.B. Wilson to Fenton, Craven & Co. In 1851 he left to become a consulting engineer to the Low Moor Iron Co.

Description of an improved safety valve, for locomotive, marine, and stationary steam boilers. Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs, 1855, 6, 24-9.

Fernihough, William
Locomotive superintendent of the Eastern Counties Railway from 1843, William Fernihough was the first (in Britain at least) to attach weights to the wheel centres to balance part of the reciprocating masses. Not in Marshall, but in Ahrons British steam railway locomotive p. 62..
See: Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Review, Aug. 1937.

Field, Edward
Inventor of the Field-type of vertical boiler used on the initial Merryweather street tramway locomotives.

Finlayson, John James
Late Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineer, BR Scottish Region. Died 3 December 1960 (Obit. J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1960, 50, 603), Educated Allen Glen's School and Royal Technical College, Glasgow. Apprenticed NBL 1918-23. Joined LNER at Cowlairs Works where he rose to become Assistant Works Manager. In 1947 became Locomotive Works Manager at Gorton. In 1952 became Works Manager, Outdoor Machinery at Swindon and 1956-9 Assistant Mechanical & Electrical Engineer at LMR HQ, Derby.

Fisher, B.S.
Locomotive superintendent Taff Vale Railway from July 1869 until October 1873; Lowe. Locomotive Superintendent of the Somerset & Dorest Railway. from 1874 until 1876 thence Resident Locomotive Engineer under the Joint Committeeuntil 1883. Barrie and Clinker The Somerset & Dorset Railway. 1978.

Fletcher, H.A.

Patent

321/1864. [Back to back locomotives]. 6 February 1864.

Forrester, George
George Forrester of Liverpool was perhaps the next to have a major influence on locomotive design (Rogers summary in book on Chapelon). Forrester saw the advantage of horizontal cylinders but was convinced that instead of having cylinders beneath the boiler they should be outside so as to be easily accessible. In 1834, therefore, he built some 2-2-0 locomotives which were the first to have outside horizontal cylinders. Forrester's ideas inspired the choice of engines for the Grand Junction Railway, and they were echoed by Joseph Locke, the engineer of that line, who in giving evidence before the Gauge Commission of 1846 said: "I directed my attention to simplifying the engine itself; and the result of that was that, instead of wanting space under the boiler, we now have no machinery there at all except the eccentrics. We now place the cylinder outside the engine. We have got rid of a very great deal of complexity in the machinery itself, and the complexity which remains is on the outside of the engine and not under the boiler." Not in Marshall, but see Lowe.

Fossick, George
Probably financier of Fossick & Hackworth of Stockton founded in about 1838 with Thomas Hackworth, brother of Timothy. (Lowe)

Foster, James
Born at Oldwinford near Stourbridge in 1786 and died at Stourton Castle on 12 April 1853. Pioneer locomotive builder. Partner in Foster, Rastrick who built early locomotives for Shutt End Railway. Stourbridge Lion was exported to the USA and Agenoria is preserved at the NRM. Marshall.

Foster, Jonathan
Enginewright at Wylam Colliery associated with Timothy Hackworth in early locomotive construction. See Rly Arch.., 2007 (15), 4..

Foster, William
Partner of John Urpeth Rastrick: early locomotive builder at Stourbridge (Lowe). Notable for supplying locomotives to Delaware & Hudson Railroad in 1829, one of which was named Stourbridge Lion.

Fox, E. (Teddy)
Worked for Coleman at Derby, and likke him ws a former North Staffordshire Railway draughtsman. Responsible for Wirral electric multiple unit designs. Rutherford: Backtrack, 2008, 22, 100.

French, W.H.
Appointed Resident Locomotive Engineer on S&DJR by Midland Railway on 17 May 1883: was killed by being crushed between two wagons at Highbridge on 1 November 1889. Radford Derby Works and Midland locomotives and Barrie and Clinker The Somerset & Dorset Railway. 1978.

Furness, H.D.
Inventor of Furness lubricator designed to lubricate cylinders when locomotive was coasting: Patent 2437/1871 (15 September): see Skellon p. 67.

Surnames beginning letter "Ga"

Gairns, John Francis
Born 1876. Died in London on 10 December 1930. (Obit.: J. Instn. Loco. Engrs., 1931, 21,, 4) Author of several J. Instn Loco. Engrs papers. Editor of Railway Magazine from 1910 and author of several books.
Locomotive compounding and superheating. Charles Griffin, 1907..

Galloway, G.B.
British patent 55/1865. Locomotives; motor road vehicles. Application 7 January 1865.
Mixture of steam and air admitted to furnace: one part of Galloway-Hill furnace??

Galloway, John
Born in Manchester on 14 February 1804 and died there on 11 February 1894. Ronald M. Birse has contributed an Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry. Inventor of Galloway boiler (whereby boiler tubes are strengthened by the presence of tapered water tubes): Dickinson cites British patent 13,532/1851 and Birse states that 9000 manufactured. Birse notes that firm supplied viaducts for Ulverston & Lancaster Railway in assocation with James Brunless.

Gammon, Cyril Augustus
Died 19 September 1958. From LNWR Wolverton: MS moved him to Derby. Between 1934 and 1947 was draughtsman to CME Committee. Obit. J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1958, 48, 420.

Geer, Henry Edward
Died on 7 March 1943. Born in 1887. Commenced his engineering career as an apprentice with Davis and Timmins, Ltd. of Wood Green,whilst attending the Northern Polytechnic. For four years he was a draughtsman with Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., and left them in 1910 to be an assistant to Mr. J. P. O’Donnell, Consulting Engineer. In 1911 he was actively engaged in exploiting the superheater inventions of J. G. Robinson, then Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Central Railway, and afterwards joined the Superheater Corporation, Ltd. (later known as The Superheater Co., Ltd.), becoming their Chief Engineer, which post he held for many years and up to the time of his decease. His duties necessitated frequent visits abroad. Obituary J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1943, 33, 158..
Contributed papers to Instn Loco. Engrs. on superheating (for which he was awarded. the Institution of Locomotive Engineer's:Silver Medal) Nos. 196 and 211.:

Patents
6011/1915. Improvements in and relating to pressure relief valves for use in connection with engine cylinders. with John Patrick O'Donnel. Applied 21 April 1915. Published 25 April 1916.
146,002 Improvements in or relating to steam superheaters for marine or like multiple smoke-tube boilers. Applied 18 August 1919. Published 8 July 1920.
251,007 Improvements in or relating to steam superheaters.with Superheater Co. Ltd. Published 21 April 1926
254,963 Improvements in or relating to steam superheaters. with Superheater Co. Ltd. Published 15 July 1926.
367,026 Improvements in or relating to steam superheating and other fluid heating elements. with Superheater Co. Ltd. Published 15 February 1932.
389,817 Improvements relating to steam superheaters. with Superheater Co. Ltd. Published 20 March 1933.
413,104 Improvements in desuperheaters, evaporators and the like. with Superheater Co. Ltd. Published 12 July 1934.
430,462 Improvements in or relating to the steam superheating installations of steam generators. with Superheater Co. Ltd. Published 19 June 1935.
444,136 Improvements in or relating to steam generating and superheating installations. with Superheater Co. Ltd. Published 16 March 1936.
474,650 Improvements in means for spacing, or spacing and supporting, the tubes in steam superheaters, boilers and like heat exchangers with Superheater Co. Ltd. Published 4 November 1937.

Gibson, J.
See Holcroft's The Armstrongs p. 53: Carriage & Wagon Superintendent, GWR, Wolverhampton: retired 1864. Inventor of "Gibson Ring" tyre fitting.

Gilchrist, Vic
Shedmaster Ipswich: 1938-1946: R.H.N. Hardy: Stratford forever! part 37. Steam Wld, 2008 (247) 42.

Gilkes, Edward
Had worked for Stockton & Darlington Railway before establishing Gilkes Wilson & Co at Teesside Engine Works in 1843/4. Locomotive manufacture began in 1847. Firm produced over one hundred locomotives for SDR (Lowe).

Glascodine, Richard Thomson
Born 2 December 1869. Died 4 December 1947. Important contributor to development of rubber in railway rolling stock. Educated Lancing College 1881-8. Engineering apprentice TVR locomotive works in Cardiff. Studied at Cardiff University College under Prof. Galloway. Joined George Spencer Moulton as designer of railway rolling springs for buffers, draw gear and suspension bearings. 1920: Manager of Technical Department; 1939: Technical Controller.

Paper
Impact of railway vehicles in relation to buffer resistance. J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1936, 26, 209.

Glehn, Alfred George de
Born in Sydenham in 1848. His father was Robert von Glehn, came from the Baltic and his mother (Agnes Duncan) was a  Scot. He was educated at King's College in London and at the Zurich Polytechnic. He considered himself to be an Englishman in spite of spending most of his time working at SACM in Belfort where he advanced compounding. His background makes the Churchward decision to evaluate his compound 4-4-2s far more expliccable. He died in Mulhouse on 8 June 1936.

[obituary]. The Locomotive 15 September 1936 p 232.

See Rutherford: Backtrack 13 495

Gomersall, Ray
R.H.N. Hardy (Startford forever. Part 24. Steam Wld, 2006 (234), 38) noted that Ray had served craft apprenticeship at Doncaster, before becoming Supernumery Foreman at Colchester, and friend of Hardy, died age 54: Sir Stephen Gomersall, Ambassador to Japan was his son..

Goodall-Copestake, Sampson George
According to John Thomas "an English gentleman" who had gone from Repton to Sharp Steewrat where he had been uinder the personal supervision of Charles Beyer thence Neilson & Co. and on to Chief Draughtsman at Dübs & Co. ( also Lowe)

Surnames beginning letter "Gr"

Graham, George
Assistant Locomotive Superintendent, North Eastern Railway at time of McDonnell: member of Tennant Committee.Divisional Superintendent at Darlington according to MacLean's Locomotives of the North Eastern Railway.

Nock, O.S. Locomotives of the North Eastern Railway

Grantham, John
Chief Draughtsman of Mather Dixon, a Liverpool firm which manufactured about 75 relatively early locomotives. (Lowe). Sekon (Evolution of the steam locomtive) notes Grantham's communication in the Engineer for 3 January 1896 noting Grantham's involvement in the design of the broad gauge grasshoper type (Mars and Ajax)).. In 1872 John Grantham designed a steam tram, with twin integral boilers (Field type) with an underfloor engine which was manufactured by Merryweather and the Oldbury Carriage & Wagon Works. The vehicle was tried on tramways in London and on the Wantage Tramway but was not successful. The twin boilers were replaced by a Shand Mason boiler and in 1903 the vehicle was working on the Portsdown & Horndean Tramway where the vehcile remained derelict until 1903. Whitcombe, H.A. (Paper No. 369) The history of the steam tram. J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1937, 27, 327-79. Discussion. 380-400. .

Green, Robert Leonard
Died on 12 December 1950 at the early age of 59; was born in Liverpool and educated at the Liverpool Institute, and subsequently at the Technical School of that City. He served his apprenticeship with the Mersey Engine Works, studying for his Chief Engineer's Certificate in steam. He had entered the drawing office when war broke out in 1914. He at once enlisted in the 18th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment, receiving a Commission in the County Palatine Artillery the following year. He served until 1919 when after demobilisation, he joined the staff of Messrs. Major & Co. Ltd. Tar Distillers, and became works manager of their London factory. Leaving that post in 1923, after a short period with Motor Car Builders, he became Assistant and later Chief Engineer with the National Fuel Oil Co. Ltd. London. Engaged on the construction of petrol storage depots, his subsequent work on the Ocean Depot at Killingholme threw heavy responsibilities on to him at the height of his powers. Early in 1935 an opening ocurred on the staff of Alco Products Ltd., a subsidiary of the American Locomotive Company, the diversity of whose interests he realised would give the greatest scope to his talents. Until the 1939-45 war his work was mainly connected with petroleum distillation and general refinery plant, much of which was produced in the U.K. for use in the large oil-producing countries. This brought him into close association with the petroleum industry which was later of considerable importance to the national effort. Between the wars he had remained in the Reserve, and on the outbreak of World War II he was called up, serving at Catterick and in France until 1940. Posted thereafter to the War Office, and then to the Royal Engineers, he served until almost the end of the war with the British Army Purchasing Commission at Washington. His work done, on release Major Green succeeded Mr H. Edmunds as European Manager of the American Locomotive Export Company, and the remaining years of a strenuous life were devoted wholeheartedly and successfully to locomotives, steam, electric and diesel. He became a well-known and highly respected figure in the British railway world. ILE obituary..

Gregory, Richard
Lowe suggests may have been Locomotive Superintendent of Taff Vale Railway in 1840s.

Grime, Thomas.
Born in Crewe in 1897. Apprenticed at Crewe Works. Joined R. Garrett & Sons as a draughtsman. In 1928 became Chief Draughtsman at Avonside. Joined Vulcan Foundry in October 1938 and died in Newton-le-Willows aged only 41. Author of papers in J. Instn Loco. Engrs.: Paper 200 and Paper 259. Worked for Hawthorn, Leslie (KPJ: seems questionable) (van Reimsdijk Part 3 of Newcomen paper p. 50) and contributed Possibilities of increased efficiency in railway locomotives. Trans. North East Coast Instn Engrs Shipbuilders, 1922/3, 39, 592-665. Obituary J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1939, 29, 186..

Grover, H.M.
According to Rowatt Trans Newcomen Soc.1927, 8, 19 was the inventor of electro-magnetic brake in which the wheels in the brake van were locked.

Gurney, Goldsworthy
Born at Treator near Padstow on 14 February 1793. Witnessed Trevithick's experiments. Inventor of oxy-hydrogen blowpipe and surgeon. Used a form of water-tube boiler in his steam road coaches. This is illustrated on page 129 of H.W. Dickinson's A short history of the steam engine. A "locomotive" based on one of these coach engines was tested by William Crawshay on his plateway at Hirwain near Aberdare in 1830. Gurney corresponded with the Liverpool & Manchester Railway but never constructed a railway engine. Died 28 February 1875. [DNB]. C.F. Dendy Marshall History of the railway locomotive down to the year 1831: see Chapter 20 (Fig. 93 for tubular boiler)

Forward, E.A. Gurney's railway locomotives, 1830. Trans. Newcomen Soc., 1921, 2, 127-9.

Guy, [Sir] Henry Lewis
Born in Penarth on 15 June 1887. Pupil on the Taff Vale Railway and studied at University College of South Wales. Guy was appointed chief engineer of the mechanical department of the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company in 1918, a post which he retained until 1941, when he resigned to become secretary of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, of which he was then a vice-president. He retired from professional work in 1951. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1936, Guy served on its council in 1938–9, was appointed chairman of the engineering sciences sectional committee in 1940, and in 1941 joined the executive committee of the National Physical Laboratory. Guy was associated with the design of the turbines for the Stanier turbine locomotive.When ill health forced Guy to retire, he moved to Dorset, where he died on 20 July 1956. ODNB biography: B.G.. Robbins.. Only one paper is listed: there are many others:.
The economic value of increased steam pressure. Proc. Instn Mech Engrs., 1927, 112, 99-213.

Surnames beginning letter "Ha"

Hall, Joseph
Mentioned by Hamilton Ellis in his chapter on the development of railway engineering in Singer and by Ahrons British steam railway locomotive (p. 240) who invented the crank system which bears his name whilst working for J.A. Maffei in Bavaria. May have influenced John Haswell.

Hall, Samuel
Ahrons stated that in 1841 a Midland Counties Railway 2-2-2 Bee was fitted with a device which forced air into the firebox when the locomotive was running to enable it to burn coal. This was accompanied by a brick arch and was reported by J. Markam in The Engineer, 1861, 18 January, p. 37. (more correctly his Proc. Instn Mech Engrs paper)

Hally, George
George Hally was chief mechanical engineer of the Metropolitan Railway from 1923 to 1933. He was responsible for purchasing some of the Woolwich/Maunsell 2-6-0s and converting them to freight 2-6-4Ts. (Jackson). On the formation of the LPTB he was one of two Metropolitan Railway officers to achive an executive (but non-influential position). Contributed to discussion on ILE Paper No. 495 p. 385 noting that rolling bearings had been fitted to some Metropolitan Railway stock..

Halpin, Druitt
Patent
14,823 Applied 20 July 1901, Accepted 9 June 1902. Thermal storage apparatus in connection with steam boiler.
Document cites Patents 20203 of 1891 and 363 of 1892. Illustrations of L&YR 2-4-2T modified with this apparatus are relatively common.

Hammond, Walter John
Inventor of air heating appartus: British Patents 26,953 of 27 November 1906 and 27,483 Improvements pertaining to the supply of heated air to boiler furnaces, applied 25 November 1905 and accepted 6 October 1910. See also Rly Arch, 2005 (11) 75 (lower) for illustration of LBSCR B1 class 0-4-2 No. 189 modified with the apparatus.

Hanbury, John J.
Locomotive Superintendent of the Metropolitan Railway from 1 July 1885 following Tomlinson. Jackson notes that he was relieved of his duties for permanent way from 1 December 1891 and resigned on 31 October 1893. He was followed by T.F. Clark.
Ellis, C.H. Some classic locomotives. 1949.

Hancock, Walter
Sekon (Evolution of the steam locomotive) states that Hancock of Stratford supplied a light engine (similar to his steam road coaches) to the Eastern Counties Railway. The boiler consisted of separate chambers and greatly reduced the risk of explosion. This is illustrated on page 130 of H.W. Dickinson's A short history of the steam engine. The vertical cylinders acted upon an independent crank shaft and the final drive was via chains. The ODNB entry notes that Hancock devised cylinders for a steam engine based upon rubber proofed fabric. Walter Hancock was born on 16 June 1799 and died 14 May 1852: he was younger brother of Thomas Hancock, the inventor of rubber mastication via his "pickle" and claimant of rubber vulcanization.

Evans, F.T. Steam road carriages of the 1830s: why did they fail? Trans Newcomen Soc., 1998, 70, 1-25.
Prosser, R.B. rev. Ralph Harrington biography Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Handyside, Henry
Handyside was Assistant Provincial Engineer in the Nelson Province of New Zealand. He devised (and patented) a system whereby trains were hauled up steep gradients by the locomotive winching its train (the locomotive being clamped to the track). He was backed by Fox, Walker & Co of Bristol and the system was tried on the Hopton Incline of the High Peak Railway. Six 2-4-2 experimental locomotives were sent for evaluation by the Army, but the system was not adopted.
Own publication
A treatise on an improved method for overcoming steep gradients on railways...London, 1874.
Pamphlet: see Ottley 2347

Smithers, Railways South East, 3 152.
Simpson, C.R.H. Handyside's steep gradient locomotive. Loco. Rly Carr. Wagon Rev., 1941, 47, 163.

Hargreaves, John
Marshall: born Bolton 22 October 1800, died Sunning Hill (Berks) 18 December 1874. Associated with Bolton & Leigh and Leigh & Kenyon Junction Railways. Sekon's Evolution of the steam locomotive (p. 34) notes that a John Hargreaves purchased the Sanspareil from the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1831; had the engine thoroughly repaired in 1837 using it on the Bolton & Leigh Railway. With the assistance of John Hick the locomotive was donated to the Science Museum in 1864.

Haswell, John
Born Lancefield, near Glasgow on 9 June 1812 and died in Vienna on 8 June 1897. Graduated from Anderson's Univeristy in Glasgow in 1834 and was then employed by William Fairbairn in Manchester. Went to Vienna to erect locomotives, but was asked to stay to develop locomotive repair works for the Vienna Glognitzer Railway. This extended to locomotive manufacture. He built an eight-coupled locomotive, Vindebona,  for the Semmering trials. He produced a precursor of the Belpaire firebox, a form of counter-pressure braking, thermic syphons, an early four-cylinder locomotive, Duplex, in 1861 and a corrugated firebox in 1870. See John Marshall..

Hatchell, M.S.
Moved from Eastleigh to become Assistant Works Manager at Ashford, and became Works Manager in 1938. Sent as representative of Chief Mechanical Engineer to North America in 1946, the Report of which recommended diesel locomotives and possibly railcars. Became Bulleid's Pricipal Assistant and was based at Brighton. H.A.V. Bulleid Bulleid of the Southern.

Hawthorn, Robert
Marshall records that Robert Hawthorn was born at Warbottle near Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 13 June 1796 and died in Newcastle on 26 June 1867. An engineering firm was founded by him in 1817 and when his brother William joined the concern in 1820 it became R.&W. Hawthorn. Lowe notes that it began locomotive manufacture in 1831 with a 2-2-2 for Vienna named Modling. Six locomotives for the Stockton & Darlington Railway followed. Rutherford (Backtrack, 2004, 18, 754) considers that Hawthorn's significance has been understated. He was willing to accept shares in lieu of cash payements. Moffat East Anglia's first railways has a diagram of the patented (1843) expansion valve gear (9691?)..

Patents all with William Hawthorn

8277: 21 November 1839: Brakes for locomotive and other steam engines and conveying steam therefrom to the cylinders
9691: 7 April 1843: Locomotive engines; partly applicable to other steam engines.
13,533: 24 February 1851

Hawthorn, Thomas
According to Marshall born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 19 April 1838 and killed in accident near Lucerne on 18 August 1888. Founder with William Black of Black, Hawthorn & Co.

Heath, Robert
In 1848 inventor of automatic continuous brake which was activated by a chain: braking force applied by weights and levers. Rowatt, T. Railway brakes.Trans Newcomen Soc.,1927, 8, 19-32:

Heaton, George
Had balanced stationary engines in 1810-11. Used models (preserved at Birmingham Museum of Science & Industry) to demonstrate wheel balancing, first applied to locomotives on London & Birmingham Railway in 1845 (Balkwill).

Heaton, Walter
Born London 1882. Apprenticed at Eastleigh Works. Then moved to L&YR at Newton Heath and thence to Gloucester Carriage & Wagon Co. From 1912 he was draughtsman on the Central Argentine Railway. Died 15 January 1939. Obit. J. Instn LOco. Engrs., 1939, 29,

Hendrie, David Anderson
Born in Inverness-shire in 1861 and pupil and later chief locomotive draughtsman to David Jones on Highland Railway at Inverness. In 1889 left to join Sharp Stewart in Glasgow where worked in Atlas Works and later at Queen's Park, but returned to Lochgorm as chief draughtsman from 1 July 1893,, and later works manager and assistant locomotive superintendent under Peter Drummond. Subsequently he became locomotive superintendent of the Natal Government Railways and from 31 May 1910 Chief Mechanical Engineer of South African Railways & Harbours. Loco Profile 17. Chacksfield (Drummond Brothers) is obviously unaware of Hendrie's significance.

Henstock, M.A.
See Cox Locomotive panorama Plate 21 (portrait) and page 80 when Cox encountered him on dynamometer. Henstock was a Derby man and later became Assistant Store Superintendent

Hepburn, Joseph
Locomotive superintendent Llanelly Railway & Dock Co., 1850-71. (Lowe). In charge when I'Anson, Fossick had contract to work the line.. McDermot History of the Great Western Railway rev. Clinker

Hepburn, Robert
Locomotive superintendent Llanelly Railway & Dock Co., 1871-3 (Lowe). . McDermot History of the Great Western Railway rev. Clinker

Herbert, T. Martin
Had reported on firebox stays on LNWR 0-8-0 locomotives at Springs Branch in January 1930. (Talbot Eight-coupled). Ran LMS Research Department from its inception until his retirement in 1961.(Cox Locomotive panorama V.2)

Heywood, Arthur Percival
Heywood (1849-1916 Ransom Narrow gauge steam) was a member of the landed gentry who developed 15 inch gauge railways on his private estate at Duffield Bank. His locomotives are included in Lowe. He was a First Class Honours Graduate in Engineering from Cambridge University. He was also interested in the military, campanology, philanthropy, religion and the Bench. See Backtrack Vol. 8 p.257. See also W.J.K. Davies' Light railways.

Hick, Benjamin
Marshall records that Hick was born in Bolton on 2 July 1815 and died in Whalley, Lancashire on 2 February 1894. He was apprenticed at Fenton, Murray & Jackson in Leeds and following a joint business with Peter Rothwell which led to Rothwell, Hick & Rothwell Hick returned to business on his own.
Patent
6689/1834 Locomotive carriage. 8 October 1834 [firebox]

Hick, John
Marshall notes born Bolton 2 July 1815, died Whalley 2 February 1794. Associated with Benjamin Hick in Benjamin Hick & Sons. Marshall states that "left firm in 1868 when he became MP", but Sekon (Evolution of the steam locomotive) states that John Hick MP for Bolton wrote a history of Sanspareil when it was presented to the Science Museum in 1864.

Hicks, C.J.
Appointed Assistant Works Manager at Ashford under Maunsell who brought him over from Inchicore where he feared victimisation for supportingg his former chief. See Holcroft's Locomotive adventure (page 79).

Highet, Campbell
Born in Cardonald, halfway (the name of a romantic telephone exchange) between Paisley and Glasgow is probably best known as an author of railway books, but he was also a professional railwayman, latterly being Assistant District Motive Power Superintendent at Bank Hall, Liverpool. Histories of Glasgow & South Western Railway and Wirral Railway.

Hill, Joseph Albert
David Jackson's J.G. Robinson confirms that this Hill (of Sheffield Ordnance Works) was behind the Galloway-Hill patent locomotive furnace which was claimed in the following patents.
Patents
21061/1911 Improvements in and relating to locomotive and the like furnaces for economising fuel and preventing sparks. Published 8 August 1912.
20643/1912. Improvements relating to the supply of air for furnaces. Published 17 April 1913.
26400/1912. Improved furnace grate for locomotive and the like boilersApplied 2 February 1912. Published 3 March 1913.
27499/1912. Improvements in or relating to furnace grates Applied 29 November 1912. Published 7 August 1913.
12451/1913. Improvements in furnace grates Applied 28 May 1913. Published 7 May 1914.
7532/1914 An improved ash ejector for locomotive and other furnaces and the like. Published 7 January 1915.
196,054 An improved method of and apparatus for firing the furnaces of steam generators and other furnaces. Published 11 April 1923.

Hitchcock, Cyril
Apprenticed under William Dean from 1883. Joined R.W. Hawthorn Leslie in 1888, thence to Maudslay & Sons. In 1889 moved to India. In 1902 joined A,M. Rendel as an inspector. From 1919 became a partner in Robert White & Partners. Died 24 March 1931.

Surnames beginning letter "Ho"

Hobson, John William
Born Newcastle-on-Tyne on 29 June 1883; died 13 January 1948. Educated Rutherford College, Newcastle; served engineering apprenticeship with Hawthorn, Leslie from 1898 to 1904. In 1904 awarded the R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie Marshall Trophy and Scholarship for proficiency in technical subjects, which enabled him to take a special course at the Armstrong College. In 1907 was awarded first prize by the North East Coast Institution of Engineers & Shipbuilders for his Paper "Modern Locomotive Boilers" and in, 1914 was awarded the Engineering Gold Medal for a Paper entitled ''Industrial Locomotives.'' In October 1910 he was appointed Chief Draughtsman of the Locomotive Dept. of Hawthorn, Leslie and Technical Manager in 1934 on amalgamation of the Locomotive Dept. with that of Robert Stephenson & Company of Darlington,

Mr. Hobson was elected a Member of the Instn Loco Engrs in 1920, and was a very keen member, serving on the Committee of the Newcastle Centre from the year of formation (1928) to 1931, and again from 1936 to 1939, then 1945 to 1946. Mr. Hobson was an authority on the history of the locomotive in general and gave various talks on that subject to societies interested in engineering. Altogether, he was fifty years with the same firm, being finally appointed Technical Manager.

Holker
Locomotive Superintendent Wrexham Mold & Connah's Quay Railway until 1877. See Dunn's Wrexham, Mold & Connah's Quay Railway..

Holmes, V.W.
Important as being one of the very few female locomotive engineers: author of excellent paper (No. 278, 1931) on poppet valves. Contributed to the discussion on Cardew's paper on lead in valve events J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1933, 23, 508.

Holt, C.
Works Manager, Beyer Peacock, 1877-1900: see Hills

Holt, Henry P.
Patented a tramway engine design in 1872 with compound engine and self-acting damper. Lowe states probably not built.

Hooley, William Glynn
Mancunian who was trained at Beyer Peacock and Naysmith Wilson. Joined SECR at Ashford in 1913 when aged 25. Leading locomotive draughtsman under Maunsell and instigator of several unfulfilled projects, including Schools class with tapered boiler, Belpaire firebox and cylindrical smokebox. Also involved in ARLE standard designs which failed to materialise. Died in January 1936, aged 48..

Atkins, Railways South East, 3, 62.
Atkins. Backtrack, 2008, 22, 461.

Horne, Frank

Ex-Darlington: became Chief Draughtsman at Doncaster during WW2 where he gained much experience in rebuilding steam locomotives. (E.S. Beavor: Steam was my calling. 1974): "with perhaps asd much experience as anyone in the design work for rebuilding steam locomotives" p. 58..

Hosgood, Walter James
Walter James Hosgood was appointed Locomotive & Machinery Superintendent to the Port Talbot Railway on 1 March 1897

Railway Archive. 2003 (4) 71.

Howe, William
Born Bishop Aukland 3 March 1814 and died Clay Cross 16 January 1879. According to Marshall was inventor of Stephenson link motion, but William Williams (mentioned by Marshall, but excluded) also contributed and according to Hunt (BackTrack 17, 641) was main innovator. Howe worked under Timothy Hackworth at Shildon as a millwright and pattern maker, then moved to Jones at Newton-le-Willows, thence to Vulcan and then to Mather Dixon in Liverpool. In 1840 he moved to Gateshead where after a brief period with Hawks, Crawshay he joined Robert Stephenson & Co where contact was made with Williams when it would seem that Howe translated Williams' idea into reality and the Stephenson link motion became a reality. In 1846 he was appointed chief engineer at George Stephenson's collieries at Clay Cross. Howe, W.L. A short biography of William Howe, 1814-1879. Liverpool: Author, [1963]. 7pp. Ottley 10405.

Hughes, Henry
In 1865 Henry Hughes, an engineer and timber merchant, founded the Falcon Works in Loughborough on seven acres of land adjacent to the Midland Railway. (Lowe). Locomotive building started soon after the work's inception. Firm for a time noted for its steam tramway locomotives, built to a patented design by Hughes. Hughes left the firm in 1883 (handing control over to Norman Scott Russell) and possibly died in New Zealand in 1896...

Hulburd, Percy
Considerable number of patents for auxiliaries and jointing materials for steam locomotive: advertised as Hulburd Patents Ltd., 26 Park Road North, Acton in 1924.

Hunter, James
Chief draughtsman to Dugald Drummond at Nine Elms from 1906, formerly with Metropolitan Railway at Neasden (Rutherford, Backtrack, 2005, 19,  102 (p. 189). According to Rutherford a mild-mannered Scot..

Hunter, John
First locomotive Superintendent Eastern Counties Railway (1846-1850) (Lowe)

Hutchinson, George
George Hutchinson was born in 1880 and left Inchicore in about 1917. (see letter by J. Cliffe by Atkins BackTrack 11 page 517) was known to letter writer. Hutchinson confirmed Maunsell's popularity at Inchicore. The 3-cylinder 0-8-2T design had to be abandoned as it was impossible to fit an inside or derived valve gear due to the small driving wheels. Notes his involvement in design of 341 Sir William Goulding and 257-64 superheater 0-6-0. He was patentee of "Maunsell" superheater which was fitted to the above designs. Watson displaced the superheater with the Schmidt type: this was a source of his unpopularity together with his anti-Irish feelings.

Hutchinson, W.H. (Joe)
Assistant to Clifford Cocks: "one fateful day, in the absence of Cocks I was called to OVB's office and requested to produce a sketch for a double four-wheeled bogie loco.". [Leader]. On his return Cocks was not amused. H.A.V. Bulleid's Bulleid of the Southern describes his involvement in the Leader project, and provides a portrait of alongside the only one to steam. Kevin Robertson's book on the Leader class makes it clear that Hutchinson was given the task of designing the sleeve valves..

Surnames beginning letter "I"

Iden, Walter
Ex-LBSCR engineer who became Assistant Motor Engineer to the London General Omnibus Co. and helped to design the B-type bus with Frank Searle: see Archive Issue 19 page 55 et seq.

Inness, Richard H. [Dick]
Atkins, Philip. Br. Rly. J. North Eastern Rly Spec. Issue, 2005?, 8-21. includes a few notes on a man who entered Gateshead Works in 1898, aged 14, was responsible for designing T2 0-8-0, and claimed that a three-cylinder 0-8-2T was contemplated for banking trains out of Tyne Dock. Unfortunately, the name is quoted with a single terminal "s": the Librarian of NERA provided the correct spelling..

Irving, Benjamin
Born in 1877. Educated Hutchinson's Grammar School. Apprenticed to Dubs, and also studied at the Glasgow & West of Scotland Technical College. In 1899 became a locomotive draughtsman at Sharp Stewart. In 1904 became Chief Locomotive Draughtsman at Andrew Barclay. In 1919 he became Commercial Manager and Technical Representative for the Locomotive Department of Armstrong Whitworth, and in 1938 he became Managing Director and Chaiman of Barclay & Sons. He died in October 1939,

Isaacson, Rupert John
Patents
27,899/1907 Improvements in valve gears for steam and other fluid pressure engines, with Horace Sanderson, Henry St John Sanderson , Edwin Wardle, John Edwin Firth and Charles Ernest Charlesworth. Applied 18 December 1907. Published 13 August 1908.
Radford's Derby Works and Midland locomotives (p. 149) states that No. 382 was fitted with Isaacson's valve gear during 1910-11.
126,203 Improvements in and pertaining to sight-feed lubricators, with Ysabel Hart Cox. Applied 27 June 1918. Published 8 May 1919.

Surnames beginning letter "J"

Jacques, John
Indoor Superintendent at Bury from 1865, but as most locomotives were of Bury type Jacques had little real influence (Griffiths)

Jeffreys, Edward Alexander
Born Shrewsbury 20 August 1828, died Leeds 3 April 1889 (Marshall). When 14 apprenticed to Bury, Curtis & Kennedy in Liverpool. In 1845 appointed Locomotive Superintendent on Shrewsbury & Chester Railway. When amalgamated with GWR in 1853 he worked with Thomas Brassey constructing rolling stock for GTR of Canada. He was resident engineer and locomotive superintendent of the Shrewsbury & Hereford  Railway until 1862: according to Reed (150 years...) whilst there he invented the rocking grate which assisted coal consumption. He became a consulting engineer to Low Moor Ironworks after the death of James Fenton and in July 1879 became a partner of James Kitson.

Jenkin, Bernard M.
Born August 1867. Educated Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University. Premium Apprentice/Pupil of Webb (1887-1889). Involved in early electric railways working under Sir Alexander Kennedy, Consulting Engineer. Contributed to discussion on W.E. Dalby (Proc. Instn civ. Engrs, 1912, 2, 877)

Jenkins, William
According to Marshall was born at Llanddewi Brefi in Cardiganshire in December 1803 and died in Manchester on 20 November 1867. He was son of a millwright with whom he served part of his apprenticeship and the remainder with Hughes & Wren in Manchester. From 1826 to 1835 he worked under Jesse Hartley on Liverpool Docks. In 1835 he joined Hartley on the Manchester & Bolton Railway and when it opened in 1838 he became responsible for locomotives at its Salford Works. He was responsible to John Hawkshaw for erecting and fitting out the works at Miles Platting where the Manchester & Leeds Railway was the first in the world to construct its own locomotives routinely. But until Hurst left for the NBR in 1854 Marshall would not agree with  Lowe who stated that Jenkins was Locomotive Superintendent of the Manchester & Leeds Railway at Miles Platting from 1847 to 1868: Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs 1860 confirm his position at Miles Platting.. Furthermore, it appears that poor Jenkins was over-worked and became ill in 1867. Portrait fp. 16 Nock: Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway.

Johansen, F.C.
Johansen was a researcher at the NPL (National Physical Laboratory): check Physics Abstracts?. Then worked for LMS Research Department where he initiated work in a wind tunnel from 1934.

with E.S. Cox
(Locomotive frames. J. Instn Loco, Engrs, 1948, 38, 81-115. Disc. 115-96. 43 digrs. Bibliog. Paper No. 473)
Paper was mainly concerned with plate frames, although the discussion incorporated a major contribution on cast bed frames based on US practice. In part, the paper reflected a major problem of frame fracture as it occurred on the LMS. The frames of the LMS class 5, LNER B1 and GWR County 4-6-0 were compared. The following parameters were considered: plate thickness, stiffness, horn stays, cross stays, ho