Thomas Grime
Thomas Grime (1897-1939)
1939 Obituary [1]
"THOMAS GRIME, who was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1931, was born at Crewe in 1897. He was educated at the County Secondary School, Crewe, and the Crewe Technical Institute. He served his apprenticeship at Crewe between 1912 and 1918 in the shops of the London and North Western Railway. In 1919 he was employed as a locomotive draughtsman by Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Ltd., Newcastle, and before leaving this company in 1928 he had risen to the position of designer and leading draughtsman. In 1928 he was appointed chief draughtsman at the Avonside Engine Company, Ltd., Bristol, where, besides revising standard designs and dealing with all work on new designs, he designed a special articulated Diesel locomotive for light tracks.
In 1934 he joined the staff of Messrs. Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., Bath, as mechanical designer, and in 1936 he became chief designer to the railway department, and personal assistant to the managing director of the Sentinel Waggon Works, Ltd. He had been with the Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., at Newton-le-Willows only a few months, when he died on 2nd January 1939. He was a member of other engineering institutions, including the Institution of Locomotive Engineers, who awarded him a gold medal in 1926 for his paper "Steam Locomotive Performance"."
1939 Obituary.[2]
Thomas Grime, elected Associate Member in 1921 and transferred to full Membership in 1928, was born at Crewe in 1897. He served his apprenticeship on the L.N.W.R. at Crewe from 1912-18, and, at the same time, attended the Crewe Technical Institute. He joined R. Garrett and Sons in 1919 as a draughtsman, and, soon after, went to R. and W. Hawthorne, Leslie and Co., at Newcastle-on- Tyne, becoming leading designer and estimator.
In 1928 he became chief draughtsman to the Avonside Engine Co., of Bristol, and left when that firm went into liquidation in 1934. For 18 months he was with Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., of Bath, as mechanical designer, and, in 1936, joined the Sentinel Wagon Works, Ltd., as Personal Assistant to the Managing Director and Chief Designer to the Rly. Dept.
In October, 1938, he joined the Vulcan Foundry at Newton-le-Willows.
Mr. Grime read two valuable Papers before the members of the Institution, for each of which he was given an award.
The first Paper, published in Journal 75, entitled ” Steam Locomotion Performance,” was read in 1926, and was awarded the Institution Gold Medal. The second Paper was read in 1929, and was awarded the Institution’s Silver Medal. This was read in 1929 and published in Journal 95, being entitled “ The Development of the Geared Steam Locomotive."
He was an A.M.I.Meeh.E. An A.M. of the North- East Coast Inst, of Engineers and Shipbuilders, who awarded him a Gold Medal in 1923.
A Member of Junior Inst, of Engineers, who awarded him a Silver Medal in 1921.
He died quite suddenly in Newton le Willows at the age of 41.