Carriage & wagon engineers

Attock, Frederick
According to Shepherd Attock was born in Liverpool on 10 February 1842 and died at Windermere on 21 May 1902. He was apprenticed under his father George Attock (below), 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. He held many patents and Shepherd notes that the Board of the L&YR took note of this in the form of post-retirement remuneration..
Shepherd, Ernie. The Atock/Attock family: a worldwide railway engineering dynasty. 2009. 264pp. (Oakwood Library of Railway History No. 150)

Patents (all via Shepherd: two final verified via Espacenet)
321/1878 Axleboxes for locomotives, railway wagons, etc.,
1954/1881 Sliding windows of railway carriages, tramcars etc.
342/1883 Couplings of railway wagons, etc.
13155/1885 Improvements in coupling apparatus for railway wagons and other vehicles, with P. Morris
13915/1885 An improved construction of folding portable table.
8319/1887 An improved draught and dust excluder or closing device applicable to railway carriage doors and otherwise.
20490/1890 An improved arm and head-rest combined, applicable to railway carriages, tramcars, ships' berths, and other seats.
22140/1891 An improved portable grip lifting jack for railway engines, carriages, wagons, tram-cars, and other like vehicles,
2707/1892 Improvements in axle boxes for locomotives, railway carriages, and other vehicles.
885/1893 Improvements in or relating to movable arm and head rests combined, applicable to railway carriages, tram-cars, ships' berths, and other seats. Published 7 October 1893.  Applied 14 January 1893.
16293/1893 Improvements in bogies for rolling stock. Published 19 December 1893. Applied 29 August 1893.

Attock, George
Born in Doncaster in 1812 (baptised St. George's church on 19 July). Moved to the Easterrn Counties Railway at Stratford as chief foreman odf the Wagon Department probably uin 1846. Died 23 August 1875 in what is now East London.
Shepherd, Ernie. The Atock/Attock family: a worldwide railway engineering dynasty. 2009. 264pp. (Oakwood Library of Railway History No. 150)
Patent
2145/1863. [Steel or rubber springs between bodies and frames].
Refers back to 1733/1853.

Carr, William
Deceased c1906: former manager of York carriage works, NER. Locomotive Mag., 1906, 12, 180

Crew, Malcolm Hillier
Manager of carriage and wagon department of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, Ashford, at time of his retirement in 1925. Born in 1877 and educated at Cheltenham College, and at Owens College, before becoming a pupil of Sir John Aspinall at the Horwich Works of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Subsequently joined LCDR becoming assistant works manager and later manager of the Longhedge Works, Battersea. On the fusion of that railway with the South Eastern Railway he was transferred to the carnage and wagon department at Ashford. Died suddenly in Malvern on 29 May 1932. Obit. Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs., 1932, 122, 719..

Crocker, F.
Worked for Midland Railway and LMS: devised an oscillation recorder; expert on carriage and wagon suspension systems. Spoke in discussion on Squire's I Loco E Paper (No. 303) pp. 422-4.

Cruddas, T.
Inventor of system for welding steel underframes. Formerly foreman blacksmith at Doncaster, became Assistant Works Manager at Shildon (Hughes LNER p. 75)

Eling-Smith, James William
Death in 1963, aged 68. Educated Derby School and after serving in WW1 in which he was awarded the Military Cross, he graduated from Glasgow University in 1922. He received his practical training as a pupil in the Carriage and Wagon Works of the former Midland Railway, Derby. In 1924 he was appointed Oil Gas Inspector (Carriage and Wargon) and in 1927 went to Newton Heath as Assistant Works Manager followed by two years at Derby Carriage and Wagon Works as Assistant to the Works Superintendent. In 1934 joined the Carriage and Wagon Drawing Office Staff at Derby as Experimental Assistant. After serving with the Forces in  WW2 and attaining the rank of Major, he returned in 1945 to Derby to become Assistant Chief Draughtsman of the Carriage and Wagon Drawing Office and in 1952 he was appointed Chief Draughtsman. In 1957 appointed as Chief Technical Assistant (Carriage and Wagon) from which position he retired in 1959. Eling-Smith was an acknowledged expert on rolling-stock braking and he visited the Continent several times representing British Railways on braking and on one occasion diesel railcar design and construction. He was long serving member of the Midlands Centre Committee of the Institution and served as its Chairman for three years in succession, 1954-57. He was elected a Member in 1936. Obituary J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1963/4, 53, 838..

Hardy, Thomas Morgan
Born 20 July 1924 at Houghton-le-Spring. Apprentice at Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries Ltd under Winston Tulip the company's Chief Engineer. See Archive, 2011 (72), 12

Pick, R.
In 1906:became manager of York carriage works, NER in succession to William Carr. Formerly employed at Shildon wagon works. Locomotive Mag., 1906, 12, 180

Sedcole, W.J.
Chief engineer of the Pullman Car Co,: died at his home in New Malden on 26 February 1947. Partly online website and Loco. Mag., 1947, 53, 62