1932 Who's Who in Railways: Name A
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AGNEW (W. A.), M.Inst.T., Chief Mechanical Engineer (Railways), Metropolitan District and Associated Railways. Born at Newton Stewart in 1874, he received his technical education in Edinburgh and Glasgow, He entered the service of the Metropolitan District Railway in 1904, and supervised the training of the staff during the introduction of electrical traction. Later he was made Chief Mechanical Engineer, and in 1912 and 191.3 was appointed also to the London Electric and Central London Railways. In February, 1921, re-organization gave him the title specified.
ALLEN (G. H. Loftus), Advertising and Publicity Officer, London Midland and Scottish Railway. — Mr. Allen entered London and North Western Railway service as a probationer in 1913. He then served in both Goods and Passenger Departments in the Liverpool district. In April, 1915, he went to France as a Railway Transport Officer. Subsequently he was appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Railway Transport, with the rank of major. In April, 1920, he was appointed Chief of the British Railway Mission to Roumania. Mr. Allen returned to London and North Western Railway service in December, 1920, and in February, 1921, was appointed Runner, Central Wales District. In September of the same year he became District Runner, Manchester, and was Superintendent of the Line's Runner at Birmingham from September, 1922 to September, 1923. He then spent six months in the United States in connection with a scheme for London Midland and Scottish goods representation in America, and after two years in charge of the Continental Section of the Chief Goods Manager's Department at Euston, he became Deputy Head of Publicity Department. In 1927 he was appointed Advertising and Publicity Officer.
ANDERSON (C. O. D.), Works Superintendent (Carriages and Wagons), Newton Heath, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Anderson was born in Ballarat, Australia, in 1887, was educated at Tonbridge School, and served his apprenticeship in the United States. In 1912 he joined the firm of Vickers, Ltd., at Erith, and after service during the war, entered the Furness Railway in July, 1920, as Material Inspector. He was promoted to the position of Assistant Works Manager of the Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Department in January, 1922, and early in March, 1923, was appointed Carriage and Wagon Works Manager (Barrow), London Midland and Scottish Railway. His present appointment dates from January, 1931.
ANDERSON (Lieut.-Col. E. P.), Inspecting Officer of Railways, Ministry of Transport. Lieut.-Col. Anderson entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1900, received his commission as Second Lieutenant, R.E., in 1901, and went to the School of Military Engineering, Chatham. He afterwards took a course of Mechanical Engineering at Chatham Dockyard, and completed that course in India in the Locomotive Department of the North-Western (State) Railway. In 1904 he joined the Engineering Department of that system as an Assistant Engineer, becoming, in 1912, an Executive Engineer. When war broke out in 1914 he was ordered to England and was for nearly two years Adjutant to Major N. Wilson, Railway Construction Engineer, No. 2, under Col. Sir W. D. Waghorn, the Chief Railway Construction Engineer. Lieut.-Col. Anderson was afterwards Railway Construction Engineer in the Fourth Army Area under Col. D. Lyell, being awarded the D.S.O., made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and mentioned three times in dispatches. He returned to India in 1919, and in 1921 became Executive Engineer, No. 1 Division, Khyber Railway Construction, under Col. Sir G. R. Hearn, whom he succeeded in 1922. After that work was finished, Col. Anderson held other railway engineering and operating appointments, and retired, as Lieut.-Colonel, as from January 14th, 1929, on his appointment to the Ministry of Transport.
ANDERSON (J. E.), C.B.E., Superintendent of Motive Power (Derby), London Midland and Scottish Railway, was born in 1871, and served his apprenticeship with the Great North of Scotland Railway, where he received training in locomotive carriage and wagon building and design, and experience in running-shed and footplate work. He was afterwards with Sharp, Stewart & Dubs, locomotive builders, and then with the Glasgow and South Western Railway as Leading Draughtsman, but following service with that company he took up a position with R. Stephenson & Co., Darlington, as Assistant to the Chief Draughtsman. Mr. Anderson entered the service of the Midland Railway in 1903, was appointed Chief Locomotive Draughtsman in 1906, and in 1913 was appointed to the position of Works Manager. From June, 1915, to April, 1919, he was Acting Chief Mechani,,a1 Engineer, and during that period, in addition to the locomotive building and repairing, was responsible for the extensive munition work carried out by the Chief Mechanical Engineer's Department of the company during the war. During the same period he was a member of the Railway War Manufactures Sub-Committee of the Railway Executive Committee. Mr. Anderson was appointed Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway in May, 1919, and was mainly responsible for the organization and output of the locomotive workshops of the company. In March, 1920, he was awarded the C.B.E. for services rendered during the war.
ANDERSON (John Sloane), General Manager, Metropolitan Railway. Mr. Anderson was born in 1888 and educated at Radley. He was articled to Mr. C. St. John Roche and became an Assistant Solicitor to the Metropolitan Railway Company early in 1914. Mr. Anderson enlisted at the outbreak of the war in the U.P.S. 18th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, and was commissioned into the Queen's (Royal. West Surrey) Regiment, and later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He succeeded Mr. I. B. Pritchard as Chief Legal Adviser and Solicitor in January, 1929, and was appointed General Manager in succession to the late Mr. R. H. Selbie, in March, 1931. Mr. Anderson continues to act also as Chief Legal Adviser and Solicitor.
ARGILE (T. E.), Assistant Chief Goods Manager (Euston), London Midland and Scottish Railway. Entered Midland Railway service at Derby in 1896, and after spending some time in the Goods and General Managers' Offices, he went to Leicester, in due course returning to Derby as Private Secretary to the then Chief Goods Manager, afterwards being transferred to General Inspector's work in the Derby district. In 1910 he was selected to undertake general station revision work all over the late Midland system. In 19)5 he was appointed Assistant to the Outdoor Goods Manager, shortly afterwards going to Swansea as South Wales Traffic Superintendent. In 1919 he transferred to Leeds as District Goods Manager, and in 1923 became Assistant to the Chief General Superintendent of the London Midland and Scottish Railway for goods operating work. In May, 1925, Mr. Argile Was appointed District Goods Manager at Leeds, becoming Goods Manager at Liverpool in November of the same year. He was appointed Goods Manager (Northern Division) towards the end of 1927, and received his present appointment in March, 1931.
ASHFIELD (Baron) of Southwell, Chairman and Managing Director, Underground Electric Railways Company, Ltd., and Associated Companies, M.Inst.T. Created Baron Ashfield of Southwell, of the County of Nottingham, in 1920, Sir Albert Stanley had for several years been responsible for the management of the Underground group of transport agencies. Born at Derby in 1875, at an early age he went to America, where he became General Superintendent of the Detroit United Railway and General Manager of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey. In connection with the reorganisation of the Metropolitan District Railway, he was selected to be Manager, and later full executive control of all the railways and associated transport agencies operated by the Underground trio Railways Company of London, Ltd., was vested in him. He received a knighthood in 1914, and afterwards joining the Government, he became Parliamentary representative of Ashton-under-Lyne and President of the Board of Trade, During 1919 he retired from politics, and resumed the transport position he had resigned for special service during the war,
AULD (John), M.I.Mech.E., Principal Assistant to Chief Mechanical Engineer, Great Western Railway. Boris at Kilmarnock, Mr. Auld served his apprenticeship in the mechanical engineering department of the Glasgow and South Western Railway, being afterwards transferred to the drawing office. In 1895 he went to the Great North of Scotland Railway at Kittybrewster, and was occupied in the design and construction of rolling stock. In 1898 he transferred to London as an Assistant on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, but four years later was back In Scotland with the Glasgow and South Western Railway as Chief Locomotive Foreman in the Glasgow District, until appointed Mechanical Engineer of the Barry Railway, 1910. On the amalgamation of the Barry Railway with the Great Western in 1922, Mr. Auld was appointed Docks Assistant to the Chief Mechanical Engineer, and at the end of 1923 Docks and Personal Assistant. His present appointment dates from January. 1932.
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