Frederick Charles Coleman
Frederick Charles Coleman (1878-1935)
1878 June 14th. Born in Norfolk
1896-96 Worked for the London and North Eastern Railway
1906 Became a journalist
1919 Founded the magazine 'Modern Transport' in Cape Town
1935 March 11th. Died
1935 Obituary.[1]
Frederick Charles Coleman, elected, an Honorary Member in 1928, received his early education at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, at Darlington. On leaving school he joined the traffic department of the former North Eastern Railway, but left in 1904, after 12 years’ service, to enter journalism. He was a regular Contributor to the Times and the principal technical journals.
During the war he joined the Artists Rifles, but later received a commission and was appointed a Railway Transport Officer (R.T.O.) and subsequently joined the transportation dept of the I.W.T. At the end of the war he was mainly responsible for founding the weekly technical publication “ Modern Transport, ” of which he was the Editor and Managing Director.
He died in a nursing home in Cape Town on nth March, 1935, whilst a delegate representing the trade, and technical press at the Fifth Imperial Press Conference, at the age of 56.