1932 Who's Who in Railways: Name L
Note: This is a sub-section of 1932 Who's Who in Railways
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LAIRD (H.), Divisional Accountant (North Eastern Area), London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. Laird held the position of Accountant and Cashier, Northern Scottish Area, until October, 1923. A native of Aberdeen, educated at Michie's Academy, Aberdeen Grammar School and Robert Gordon s College, he entered the service of the Great North of Scotland Railway in 1889, as a Junior Clerk at the Waterloo Goods Station, and was transferred to the Goods Manager's Office in November of that year. In 1891 he was transferred to the Audit Office, and in due course, became Chief Assistant, being, in 1907, appointed Chief Assistant in the Accountant's Department. Mr. Laird was appointed Accountant and Cashier of the Great North of Scotland Railway in 1918, and in 1921 was given control of the whole of the accounting, both revenue and expenditure, while retaining the position of cashier.
LAMB (F. W.), Assistant to General Manager (Scotland), London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. Lamb commenced his railway career in the office of the General Manager of the North British Railway, after having had a commercial and insurance training. Prior to the grouping of railways, he acted for a number of years as Secretary to the Scottish Railways General Managers' Conference, as well as to the North British and Caledonian Companies' General Managers' Conference. For many years he was Honorary Secretary to the North British Railway War Relief Fund. He became Senior Clerk to the General Manager, Scotland, in 1924, and was appointed to his present position in August, 1930.
LAMPITT (F. W.), Assistant to Chief Goods Manager and Development Agent, Great Western Railway. Mr. Lampitt entered the company's service in the South Wales District in 1896. Two years later he came to Tendon, and during the period that followed gained extensive experience at 'various London depots. He was engaged at the Victoria and Albert Depot and at Park Royal when these stations were first opened, and in 1911 was appointed Chief Clerk at the then newly-constructed South Lambeth Station, a position he held for nearly ten years. In 1921 Mr. Lampitt was attached to the Chief Goods Manager's Staff at Paddington, where he served on various important committees, entailing the visiting at all the larger goods stations on the company's system. These committees operated with the dual function of introducing mechanical appliances and modern methods of bookkeeping, and of reorganising the clerical staff. He was appointed Goods Superintendent at Bristol two years later. During his tenure of office there, Temple Meads Goods Depot was entirely rebuilt. In 1927 Mr. Lampitt was appointed District Goods Manager at Liverpool, holding that position until his promotion, in 1931, to Paddington as Assistant to Chief Goods Manager and Development Agent.
LATHAM (C. J. C.), Divisional Superintendent (London Central Division), Southern Railway. Mr. Latham entered the service of the South Eastern Railway in 1896, and was afterwards on the staff of the Canadian Northern Railway, returning to the South Eastern Rail way in 1904, in Office of the Superintendent of the Line. Appointed Chief Clerk to District Superintendent, London. 1911; 1915, Assistant to Northern District Superintendent; 1917, appointed Acting D5 strict Superintendent, Northern Division; 1920, appointed Eastern District Superintendent; 1923, appointed Divisional Operating Superintendent (Southern Division), Southern Railway. His present appointment dates from 1930.
LAZENBY (W. E. C.), Assistant Chief Officer for Labour and Establishment, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Entered Midland Railway service in 1899. From 1915 to 1922 he was Chief Staff Clerk in the General Manager's Office, and on the formation of the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 he became Staff Assistant in the Staff and Labour Section of the General Manager's office at Euston, which position he held until 1927, when he was appointed Assistant to the Chief Officer for Labour and Establishment, afterwards becoming Principal Assistant as from January 1st, 1930. Whilst at Derby, Mr. Lazenby served as Secretary of the Company's side of their Sectional Councils. He was also the Midland representative on the R.C.H. Sub-Committee of General Manager's Representatives (staff matters). Mr. Lazenby is Chairman of the Railways Staff Conference Sub-committee, and conducted the case for the railway companies on railway wages and conditions of service before the National Wages Board last year. As London Midland and Scottish Representative on the Central St. John Ambulance Committee, he is an Honorary Serving Brother of the St. John Ambulance Association. His present appointment was made early in 1931.
LEAN (J. F.), Principal Assistant to the General Manager, Great Western Railway. — Mr. Lean joined Great Western service in January, 1887, as a Junior Clerk in the General Manager's Office, where he has ever since been engaged. He has extensive experience of the negotiation of private siding agreements and matters connected therewith, the consideration of light railway proposals under the Light Railways Act, 1896, joint matters and electrification schemes. In 1919 he was appointed Chief Clerk to the General Manager. His present appointment dates from 1922.
LEES (J.), M.Inst.T,, Assistant Superintendent, Southern Area (Western Section), London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. Lees entered the service of the Great Central (then the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire) Railway in 1891 as an apprentice in the office of the Superintendent of the Line. In 1903 he was appointed Chief Clerk to the Superintendent of the Line, Great Central Railway, and in 1912 was promoted to the position of Assistant District Superintendent and Goods Manager, Immingham Dock. In 1919 he was appointed District Traffic Manager, Immingham Dock. From January 1st, 1923, upon the formation of the London and North Eastern Railway, of which the Great Central Railway was a constituent company, Mr. Lees was appointed to his present position.
LEIGH (F. A. Cortez), M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E., F.R.G.S., Electrical Engineer, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Lt.-Col. Leigh went through a course of electrical engineering at Owens College, Manchester, before commencing his apprenticeship to the electrical engineering profession. He served his apprenticeship with an electrical manufacturing firm in the Midlands, and was afterwards appointed an engineer, and was responsible in the earlier stages of electric light work for the equipment of many of the corporation power stations, both under the alternating and direct current systems. Later he was Assistant Engineer to one of the leading corporations in England. In 1897 he became associated with a firm of Consulting Engineers - Lacey, Sillar and Leigh - but severed his connection with them on being appointed, on January let, 1910, Chief Electrical Engineer to the original London and North Western Railway Company. In 1923 he was appointed Electrical Engineer (Western Division), London Midland and Scottish Railway. In March, 1925, he was appointed Electrical Engineer, London Midland and Scottish Rail way.
LEMON (E. J. H.), O.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., Vice-President, Railway Traffic, Operating and Commercial Section, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Lemon received his theoretical training at the Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh, and the first part of his practical training at the Hyde Park Works of the North British. Locomotive Company, where he gained experience in all departments. He was afterwards, for a short period, with Brown Brothers, Hydraulic Engineers, Edinburgh, and subsequently had a year's running shed experience with the Highland Railway at Inverness prior to joining the staff of Hurst, Nelson & Co., Ltd. In 1911 Mr. Lemon entered the service of the Midland Railway as Chief Wagon Inspector, and was promoted Works Manager in 1917, Divisional Carriage and Wagon Superintendent (Derby) in 1923, Divisional Carriage and Wagon Superintendent (Earlestown and Newton Heath) in January, 1925. When the late Mr. Reid became Vice-President, on January 1st, 1927, Mr. Lemon succeeded him as Carriage and Wagon Superintendent. He was appointed to the position of Chief Mechanical Engineer (which includes charge of both Locomotive and Carriage and Wagon Workshops) in January, 1931, in succession to Sir Henry Fowler. He was awarded the O.B.E. at the end of the war in recognition of Government work done in the Carriage and Wagon Department of the Midland Company at Derby. His present appointment dates from March 1st, 1932.
LEMON (F. A.), Works Superintendent (Locomotives), Crewe, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Lemon began his career as a premium apprentice in the Crewe Works of the London and North Western Railway. After passing through the various workshops and the Drawing Office, he was transferred to the Running Department, where he occupied various positions from Assistant Foreman at a running shed to Assistant the Running Superintendent, with a period of two and a-half years superintending all departments of the Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway. In 1916 he was appointed Assistant Manager of Crewe Works, becoming Manager in 1920. His present appointment dates from January, 1931.
LINGARD (A. H.), Deputy Commercial Assistant to Traffic Manager, Southern Railway. Mr. Lingard joined the old London, Chatham and Dover Company in 1887, as a Junior Clerk in the Goods Manager's Office. After obtaining a knowledge of the various sections in that department he was appointed Assistant Rates Clerk in 1891. In 1900, on the working union of the London, Chatham and Dover and South Eastern Companies. Mr. Lingard was responsible for the preparation of the complete list of Goods Rates between the two Sections. Mr. Lingard was appointed Chief Rates Clerk in April, 1911 which post he held until promoted to the position of Assistant to the Goods Manager in September, 1920. He was appointed Assistant to Indoor Commercial Manager in 1923. His present appointment dates from 1930.
LINTON (C. A. G.) , M.B.E., Divisional Engineer, London (East) District, Southern Railway. Mr. Linton was apprenticed to J. & R. Houston, Greenock, afterwards attached to Arrol's Bridge and Roof Company, Glasgow; 1899, entered the service of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway new works department ; 1902, transferred to Engineer's Department, South Eastern and Chatham Railway; 1914, appointed Resident Engineer, Construction, Military Base, Boulogne; 1917-18, attached to Messrs. Robinson & Co., as Resident Engineer for works in France; 1920, appointed District Engineer, Tonbridge Division; 1923, appointed Divisional Engineer, London (East) District, Southern Railway.
LOCKHART (J.), Traffic Manager, Great Northern Railway (Ireland). Mr. Lockhart entered the service of the Caledonian Railway in February, 1896, where he obtained experience in station booking, station working, accounting, etc. He later served in the various departments of the office of the District Superintendent, Western District, Glasgow, being finally passed as proficient in signalling and other aspects of railway work by the late Sir Guy Calthrop (then General Superintendent, Caledonian Railway), and being appointed Relieving Agent. From June, 1909, to September, 1918, Mr. Lockhart was in the service of the Peking-Mukden Railway, where he was in charge of Passenger Audit in the Accounts Department, and assisted in organising interline traffic in China and international through traffic to and from China with the late Mr. J. E. Foley, then Traffic Manager. In September, 1918, Mr. Lockhart was transferred to the Ministry of Communications, Peking, as Chief Accountant of Railway Clearing House, -which he organised, being later appointed Manager. During this period he was Secretary to Chinese Traffic and Accounts Conferences, and also a delegate of the 'Chinese Railways to international traffic conferences held in the Far East. On the collapse of the Peking Government in 1928, Mr. Lockhart was transferred to Nanking as Adviser to the Through Traffic Administration attached to the Ministry of Communications of the new Chinese National Government, and on the organisation, in October, 1928, of a Ministry of Railways, was transferred to it. He was appointed to take charge of the Traffic Division in the Ministry in December, 1928, being responsible for the supervision of traffic working on the Chinese Railways. On the outbreak of the recent Chinese war, Mr. Lockhart organised a Bureau of Railway Statistics, being later promoted Adviser to the Ministry. His present appointment dates from January, 1931.
LOVATT (J. J.), Assistant Locomotive Running Superintendent (North-Eastern Area), London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. Lovatt received his technical education at Rutherford College, Newcastle, and served his apprenticeship in the Gateshead Locomotive Works of the former North Eastern Railway, where he had experience in the various shops and in the drawing office. He was subsequently appointed Inspector in the Electrical Department. In 1907 Mr. Lovatt was transferred as Inspector to the Dynamometer Car Section of the Chief Mechanical Engineer's Department, and four years later was appointed Assistant Shed Foreman at Sunderland and later at Hull Dairycoates. Afterwards he had charge in turn of the sheds at Newport, Selby, Tyne Dock, Shildon, and Gateshead before being appointed to the York District in 1925. His present appointment was made in the latter part of 1931. During the war Mr. Lovatt served in France with the rank of Captain in the Royal Engineers, and in the last year of the war was Locomotive Superintendent of the Light Railways of the 3rd Army. Particularly interested in educational work, Mr. Lovatt has for several years taught engineering subjects under the Newcastle Education Committee. He is a Member of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers.
LUNN (A. L.), M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech.E., Deputy Electrical Engineer, London Underground Group of Railways. Mr. Lunn was educated at West House School, Northallerton, and Etonville School, Harrogate. He received his technical education at Harrogate Technical School and Leeds Technical School, and subsequently - from December, 1899, to December, 1903 - was a pupil of Mr. R. Falshaw, Electrical and Consulting Engineer, of Harrogate, one of the oldest electrical engineering firms in Yorkshire. In September, 1906, he entered municipal service, holding junior engineers' positions with the Manchester Corporation Electricity Department, at the Stuart Street Power Station. From May, 1910, to March, 1915, he was Engineer-in-Charge at the Hylton Road Power Station of the Sunderland Corporation, subsequently holding progressive appointments under the Manchester Corporation Electricity Department as an Engineer-in-Charge, Senior Engineer-in-Charge, Turbine House Superintendent, Assistant Resident Engineer and Resident Engineer at the Stuart street Power Station (from March, 1915, to August, 1925), Superintendent of Power Stations (from August, 1925, to May, 1927), and Deputy-Chief Engineer (from May, 1927, to July, 1930). Mr. Lunn is a member of the Institutions of Electrical and . Mechanical Engineers. He took up his present duties in September, 1930.
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