Frederick James Page (1877-1932)
1877 December 19th. Born at Peterborough the son of Sydney John Page, a Brewer.
1901 Residing at 1 Lavender Terrace, Peterborough: Frederick James Page (age 23 born Peterboro), Locomotive Engine Repairer (Fitter). Single.[1]
1922 Carriage and Wagon Supt., B.B. and C.I. Railway., India; Ed. Privately. Training: Sc. Sch., Peterboro', and Leeds Tech. Inst. In Loco. Dept., G.N. Railway., 7 years, and with Kitson and Co., Leeds; became Works Mngr. Loco., Carriage and Wagon Shops, S. Indian Railway., at Negapatam, 1902, subsequently District Loco. Supt., and in 1909 was appointed Deputy Loco. Supt. of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway., then Loco. and Call Supt.
1932 Died. 'Frederick James Page (55), a retired Indian railway official, of Happs Edge, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, who was killed on Tuesday while on his way to Bristol to bring his two children home from school for the Christmas holidays. No one saw the accident, but the opinion of those who gave evidence was that the car had turned two somersaults after a skid at the bottom of Tog Hill, Wick, near Bristol, a notorious danger spot.'[2]
1933 Obituary [3]
FREDERICK JAMES PAGE, O.B.E., who was killed in a motor accident on 20th December 1932, had held various responsible positions on the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway for nearly twenty-five years, and was concerned with the electrification of the Bombay suburban lines. He was on many occasions chairman of various sections and committees of the Indian Railway Conference Association.
He was born at Peterborough in 1877 and received his technical education from 1896 to 1901 at the Peterborough School of Art and at Leeds Technical Institute.
He served his apprenticeship in the workshops and running sheds of the Great Northern Railway at New England from 1893 to 1899, and for the following twelve months was employed by Messrs. Kitson and Company. He then returned to the Great Northern Railway as locomotive foreman for a further eighteen months.
In 1902 Mr. Page became works manager at Negapatam on the South Indian Railway and in 1905 district locomotive superintendent at Madura.
In 1909 he was appointed assistant locomotive superintendent of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway and in 1911 became superintendent.
During 1927 Mr. Page officiated as Director of Mechanical Engineering on the Indian Railway Board.
In 1932 he became director of H.E.H. The Nizam's State Railway.
Mr. Page was elected a Member of the Institution in 1912.
1933 Obituary.[4]
Frederick James Page, O.B.E. (Member), born in 1877, served his apprenticeship with the old Great Northern Railway Company at Peterborough, on the completion of which he entered the Works of Messrs. Kitson and Co., of Leeds, as a mechanic, but returned very shortly to- the Great Northern Railway Co. as a Chargeman and Relieving Foreman in the Running Shed at Grantham.
In 1902 he was appointed Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Works Manager of the South Indian Railway Co. at Negapatam, which post he held until 1906 when he was appointed District Locomotive and Carriage Superintendent of the Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway, subsequently being made Deputy Locomotive and Carriage Superintendent.
In 1910 he became Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the Broad Gauge section at Bombay, and in 1929 Director of Mechanical Engineering to the Railway Board of India.
In 1932 he returned to England on leave prior to his retirement, and at the same time was appointed a Director of H.E.H. Nizam’s State Railway. He was actively interested in the affairs of the Institute in India, and was Chairman of the Centre in 1930.
He died on Tuesday, the 20th December, 1932, as a result of a motor accident.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1901 Census
- ↑ Portsmouth Evening News - Thursday 22 December 1932
- ↑ 1933 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries
- ↑ 1933 Institution of Locomotive Engineers: Index