Stratford engineers and draughtsmen

English, A.E.
Senior Tecnical Assistant to the Mechanical Engineer, Stratford, LNER. "fount of knowledge, experience and ingenuity... and greatly respected by Sir Nigel Gresley". Hardy Steam in the blood.

Gillies, M.
Works Manager, Stratford: in-charge of locomotive stock following resignation of Massey Bromley.

Glaze, C.W.L.
Works Manager at Stratford under Gresley

Macallan, George
Works Manager Stratford (Ellis Twenty locomotive men: see anecdote concerning Worsdell). Inventor of eponymous blastpipe used on Great Eastern locomotives. See Ahrons' British steam railway locomotive p. 310
Patent
10460/1905. An improved spark arrester for locomotive and other high pressure engines. Applied: 18 May 1905. Published 1 February 1906

McDermid, William Francis
Born 10 July 1872. Spent his whole career in Stratford Works of GER: became a draughtsman in the Works Plant & Machinery Office in July 1898, and took charge of Office in 1911. He was appointed Chief Draughtsman at Stratford in 1926. Retired in 1933. Wrote papers for Instn Loco. Engrs on the blast pipe: Papers No. 291 and 300 and Paper 337 on brakes for streamlined (high speed) vehicles. Died on 2 April 1956. Obituary: J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1955, 45, 701...

Neale, D.H.
Apprenticed to William Adams at Bow Works, and subesquently jointed him at Stratford where he was partly responsible for the design of the first British 2-6-0. For a time he worked for the Westinghouse Co. and this was a probably a major influence on the Westinghouse brake being adopted by the GER.. Wilson, E.H. William Adams (1823-1904). Trans. Newcomen Soc., 1985, 57, 125-46. Disc.: 147-8.