Thomas Attwood Brockelbank
Thomas Attwood Brockelbank (1841- )
1841 October 14th. Born the son of George Brockelbank and his wife Elizabeth Jane Herring
1870 Married at Kensington to Frances Stuart Fairman. TAB is a Lighterman and his father George is a Gentleman.
1878 Patent '814. To Thomas Attwood Brockelbank, of No. 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill, in the city of London, for the invention of "improvements in apparatus for operating the brakes of trains of rail-way carriages."'[1]
1883 of Rylett Road, Shepherds Bush.[2]
1883 Brockelbank's Automatic Railway Coupling. Report and Illustration on page 261 of The Engineer 1883/10/05.
1899 Patent. Improvements in Coupling Apparatus for Railway Wagons and similar Vehicles.
1900 of 33 Queen Victoria Street, London E.C.
1913 Outward passenger on Minnewaske to New York. Listed as an Engineer.