1932 Who's Who in Railways: Name I
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INGLIS (R. J. M.), Assistant Engineer (Construction), Southern Area, London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. R. J. M. Inglis was educated privately at Bonnington Park School, Edinburgh University, and Heriot Watt College. He joined the North British Railway Engineer's Department as a pupil in 1898, being taken on the staff in 1900. In 1902 he was appointed Assistant Resident Engineer, and in 1903, Resident Engineer on the construction of the High Street Goads Warehouse, Glasgow, and yards and widenings in connection therewith. In 1905 he returned to the Head Office in Edinburgh, and was in charge of various large contracts. In 1910, when Mr. C. J. Brown became Engineer-in-Chief, he was appointed Chief Assistant in the New Works Department, and had the supervision of many contracts. In 1911 he was appointed District Engineer, Northern Division, and in 1916 was transferred to the Western Division, with headquarters in Glasgow. In 1919 he was appointed Deputy Chief Engineer, Railways, at the Ministry of Transport, and in 1921, Acting Chief Engineer. In 1921 he returned to his old Division in Glasgow. In 1910 he took command of the R.E. Unit of the O.T.C. at Edinburgh University, which had just been formed by Prof. Sir T. Hudson Beare, and at the outbreak of war, in 1914, Mr. Inglis, holding the rank of Captain in the Royal Engineers, T.F., immediately volunteered for service. He was appointed Adjutant to the first Training Camp for Officers at Barry under Lord Kitchener's Scheme. In October, 1914, he applied for service abroad, but was recalled to the railway service, owing to his position as District Engineer on the railway along the East Coast, embracing the Rosyth Naval Base and the Docks at Methil and Burntisland. In January, 1929, Mr. Inglis was appointed Assistant Engineer (Permanent Way), Southern Area, London and North Eastern Railway, which position he held until taking up his present appointment at the beginning of 1932. Mr. Inglis is a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (Edinburgh).
INNOCENT (Alfred Pryce), Assistant Stores Superintendent, Southern Railway. Mr. Innocent joined the London, Chatham and Dover Railway as a Junior Clerk in the Stores Department, and on the working union with the South Eastern Railway, passed through the various sections of the department, changing, in 1908, to the Chief Accountant's Office. In February, 1914, Mr. Innocent was placed by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Companies' Managing Committee in charge of the Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Stores Depot at Ashford, and in June, 1914, he was appointed Assistant Stores Superintendent at London Bridge. From January 1st, 1923, upon the formation of the Southern Railway, of which the South Eastern and Chatham Railway was a constituent company, Mr. Innocent was appointed to his present position. During the war Mr. Innocent arranged purchases of stores for the Railway Transport Force.
IVATT (H. G.), Works Superintendent (Locomotives), Derby, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Ivatt was educated at Uppingham School, and served his apprenticeship at Crewe Works, London and North Western Railway. After a period in the Drawing Office, he became Assistant Running Shed Foreman at Crewe, subsequently taking charge of locomotive experimental work at Crewe, and later being appointed Assistant in Outdoor Machinery Department. During the war he served on the staff of the Director of Transport in France, and on returning to this country became Assistant, Locomotive Superintendent of the North Staffordshire Railway. His present appointment dates from 1928.
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