1932 Who's Who in Railways: Name C
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CALDER (James), General Manager (Scotland), London and North Eastern Railway. Born on the company's property—namely, at Blackhall Railway Station, on June 15th, 1869, and educated at Shotts and Hamilton, he began his career with the North British Railway in April, 1883, and, having obtained four years' experience at Peacock Cross, Lennoxtown and Craigendoran Stations, was transferred to the office of the District Superintendent, Glasgow, where he was employed for a period of five years prior to receiving a position in the department of the General Manager. Subsequent promotion resulted in his being appointed chief assistant to the General Manager, and this office he held from November 1st, 1903, until January 1st. 1913, when he became Assistant General Manager. In March, 1918, he succeeded Mr. Jackson as General Manager. His present appointment dates from January 1st, 1923.
CARPENTER (Ben), Assistant Chief Docks Manager, Great Western Railway. Mr. Carpenter commenced his career with the Barry Railway at the docks, in the year 1901, and after serving under the Shipping Superintendent for some years, was transferred to the General Manager's Department. Prior to amalgamation with the Great Western Railway, Mr. Carpenter was Personal Assistant to the General Manager of the Barry Railway Company. After the incorporation of the Barry Railway into the Great Western system, Mr. Carpenter was appointed to the position of General Assistant to the Chief Docks Manager. In 1926 he received his present appointment. Mr. Carpenter was nominated by the company in 1926 to succeed Mr. T. H. Rendell as Chairman of the Barry Pilotage Board.
CARPMAEL (Raymond), M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., Chief Engineer, Great Western Railway. Mr. Raymond Carpmael, M.I.Mech.E., appointed in January, 1929, Chief Engineer, Great Western Railway, in succession to the late Mr. J. C. Lloyd, M.Inst.C.E., had held the position of Assistant Engineer since January 1st, 1926, previous to which date he held for two years the position of Assistant to the Joint Chief Engineer, and under Mr. W. Waddell, M.Inst.C.E., at Barry Docks, was responsible for the Civil Engineering work of the whole of the Great Western Company's Docks. He was educated privately between 1883 and 1890, and then at Dulwich College. Between 1894 and 1899 he served a pupilage with Stothert & Pitt, Ltd., crane and harbour plant manufacturers. Bath, and supervised the erection of harbour cranes, etc., both in this country and abroad, then spending eighteen months on the commercial side of the business of that firm. In March, 1900, Mr. Carpmael entered Great Western Railway service in the Bridge Department at Paddington, and in 1901 was appointed by the late Sir James Inglis, Past-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, at that time the Great Western Railway Company's Chief Engineer, an Assistant on the Fishguard Harbour works under Mr. G. Lambert Gibson, M.Inst.C.E. In 1902 he was appointed Chief Assistant, in which position he was responsible for a great deal of the notable engineering work involved by the undertaking then in progress at Fishguard. During 1907 and 1908, Mr. Carpmael served as Resident Engineer under Mr. W. W. Grierson, M.Inst.C.E., then Chief Engineer to -the Great-Western Railway, in charge of new works at Weymouth and Carmarthen. Between 1909 and 1916 he served as Chief Assistant on the Shrewsbury Division, under Messrs. II. K. Woodward, M.Inst.C.E.,, and R, C. Sikes, M.Inst.C.E. In 1916 he was transferred to the Gloucester Division as Chief Assistant to Mr. G. W. Blackall. During 1917 he was Senior Engineer in charge of No. 3 (Great Western Railway) Civilian Railway Company, engaged in laying in and maintaining railways, sidings, yards, etc., in France and Flanders. In 1919 he was appointed Divisional Engineer at Shrewsbury, in 1922 being transferred to Neath in a similar capacity. Mr. Carpmael is a member of the Institutions of Civil and Mechanical Engineers and is President of the Permanent Way Institution. Mr. Carpmael was awarded the Institute of Transport Gold Medal (Engineering), 1928, for a paper entitled " Speed and Safety on the Railways." He was Chairman of the Chief Civil Engineers' Conference for 1931.
CARSLAKE (C.), Assistant Signal and Telegraph Engineer, Southern Area, London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. C. Carslake was appointed Assistant Signal Engineering 1926, having previously held the position of Outdoor Assistant in the same department since May, 1924. Prior to that he was Assistant Signal Superintendent of the late Great Central Railway and of the G.O. Section of the London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. Carslake was formerly in the employ of the British Power Railway Signal Company. In 1906 he was made Assistant Signal Superintendent of the Great Central Railway, and remained in that position up to 1924. His present appointment dates from 1929. He is President of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers for 1932.
CARTER (S. B.), O.B.E., M.Inst.T., Outdoor Assistant to Chief General Superintendent, London Midland and Scottish Railway. — Mr. Carter was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and entered London and North Western Railway service in January, 1900. In June, 1904, he was appointed Outdoor Assistant to the Superintendent of the Line, being stationed at Chester, Crewe and Euston during that and following years. In January, 1910, he became District Superintendent in charge of the North Eastern District, with headquarters at Manchester, and in October, 1914, transferred to a similar office in charge of the Northern District, with headquarters at Liverpool. On the amalgamation of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway with the London and North Western, Mr. Carter became, in January, 1922, Operating Assistant to the General Superintendent in charge of the Western Division, continuing in a similar capacity on the formation of the London Midland and Scottish Railway until his appointment as Divisional Superintendent during 1924. On January 1st 1927, Mr. Carter was appointed Outdoor Assistant to Chief General Superintendent.
CHAPMAN (H. S.), Secretary, Metropolitan Railway. Mr. Chapman succeeded Mr. H. S. Stewart as Secretary to the Metropolitan Railway Company on January 1st, 1929. He was born at Catford in May, 1890, and educated locally. He entered the service of the Metropolitan Railway in 1904, being appointed to the Registration Department, and was made Transfer Clerk in October, 1922. Four years later he was appointed Chief Clerk to the Secretary. During the War Mr. Chapman served in a Light Railway Operating Company of the Royal Engineers.
CLAY (W. H. C.), Land and Estate Agent, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. W. H. C. Clay became Assistant Land and Estate Agent as from November 1st, 1924, having previously held the position of Divisional Land and Estate Agent (Midland Division), to which he was appointed early in 1923. He was born in 1879, and obtained a Queen's Scholarship at Westminster School. After leaving Westminster in 1897, he took a three years' course in civil engineering at the Central Technical College, and obtained a diploma in civil engineering in 1900. He then became a pupil to the late Mr. J. A. McDonald, Chief Engineer of the Midland Railway, and became an Assistant in the Engineer's Department in 1902. In 1903, Mr. Clay was transferred to the Estate Office. He was appointed Chief Assistant in 1906, and Assistant Estate Agent in 1910. In August, 1913, Mr. Clay was appointed Estate Agent of the Midland Railway Company. On the outbreak of war, Mr. Clay rejoined his unit and proceeded on active service early in 1915, being subsequently invalided home and. ordered to the War Office in charge the Quartering side of the Lands Directorate. He was three times " mentioned for valuable services, and was awarded the Territorial Decoration, and the Order of the British Empire (Military Division); Mr. Clay is a Fellow of the Surveyors Institution, an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a Fellow of the Land Agents' Society. He obtained a. Miller Prize for a paper before a. students' meeting at the Institution of Civil Engineers, and has contributed to the Proceedings of the Surveyors' Institution. His present appointment dates from 1928.
CLAYTON (James), M.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., Personal Assistant to Chief Mechanical Engineer, Southern Railway. Mr. Clayton was apprenticed to Beyer, Peacock & Co., Ltd.. Manchester. While serving in the shops and drawing office of that firm he studied concurrently at the Municipal School of Technology, and Owens College. Manchester. He entered the service of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1899 as a locomotive draughtsman, afterwards acting as Chief Inspector of materials and new locomotives until 1903, in which year he was appointed Chief Draughtsman and afterwards Assistant Works Manager to the Motor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.. Coventry. In 1905 Mr. Clayton was placed in charge of the Investigation Section of the Running Department of the Midland Railway, Derby, until 1907, when he was transferred to the Locomotive Drawing Office as Chief Assistant. In 1914 he was appointed Chief Locomotive Draughtsman, South Eastern and Chatham Railway, Ashford, and became Personal Assistant to Mr. R. E. L. Mansell, Chief Mechanical Engineer, in 1919. On the formation of the Southern Railway in 1923 he was given his present appointment.
CLAYTON (W. J.), Estate Agent (Eastern Division), Southern Railway, Mr. Clayton is the son of the late Registrar of the South Eastern Railway, and was appointed to the staff of the Estate Office in 1882. He became Assistant Estate Agent, and in 1905 was appointed Estate Agent to the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. In 1923 he was appointed Estate Agent, Southern Railway (South Eastern section).
CLIFTON (T.), Assistant to Vice-President, Finance and Service Departments, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Clifton entered the service of the former Midland Railway as a learner in the Telegraph Department in 1894. He was transferred to the Locomotive Department at Derby in 1902, and served in the Locomotive Accountant's Office, eventually becoming, in 1923, Locomotive Accountant for the Midland Division of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. He remained there until he was transferred to Euston in 1925 to take up the position of Investigator of Expenditure and Costs. At the beginning of 1930 he was appointed Assistant to Chief Accountant, and succeeded to his present Position early in 1932.
COBB (A.), Assistant Locomotive Running Superintendent, Southern Railway. Mr. Cobb was previously Assistant Outdoor Locomotive Superintendent of the South Eastern and Chatham section. Educated at Shrewsbury School, he entered the works at Ashford as a pupil in September, 1900, passing through the various shops and obtaining experience as a fireman. In April, 1905, he was appointed a Draughtsman, and, in December of the same year, Assistant Locomotive Inspector. Two years later Mr. Cobb became Locomotive Inspector, which Position he retained until his appointment in November, 1913, as Assistant to the Outdoor Locomotive Superintendent, his promotion to the position of Assistant outdoor Locomotive Superintendent taking place in September. 1920. His present appointment dates from 1923.
COE (H. Stewart), P.C., Secretary, Great Southern Railways, Ireland. Mr. Coe was appointed Secretary, Great Southern Railways, as from May 1st, 1928. He joined the service of the former Great Southern and Western Railway in 1887, and took up duty in the Audit Office, where he served for eight years, being then specially selected for a vacancy, in the Secretary's Office. When Sir William Goulding became Chairman of his company in 1901, Mr. Coe was promoted to be his Confidential Assistant, and was again promoted in 1919 to the Chief Clerkship in the Secretary's Office. On the amalgamation of the Free State Railways, Mr. Coe continued in the same capacity with the new company. Mr. Coe was a well-known sportsman in his younger days, and founded and organized the present successful Dublin Railway and Steam Packet Social and Athletic Union, of which he was the General Secretary for fifteen years.
COLLETT (Charles Benjamin), O.B.E., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., Chief Mechanical Engineer, Great Western Railway. Appointed in succession to Mr. G. J. Churchward, January 1st, 1922. After pupilage at the works of Messrs. Maudslay, Son & Field, of Westminster and Lambeth, Mr. Collett entered Great Western Railway service as a draughtsman at Swindon in 1893, eventually rising to the post of Assistant Chief Draughtsman. In June, 1900, he was appointed Technical Inspector at Swindon Locomotive Works, and the following year became Assistant Works Manager, being appointed Locomotive Works Manager in January, 1913. In 1919 he became Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer.
COLLETT (S. B.), Assistant Secretary, Great Western Railway. Mr. Collett was educated at Bishop's Stortford College, and was later articled to Messrs. William Mellows & Son, solicitors, of Peterborough. Early in 1915 he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and later in the same year 'was gazetted to the Durham Light Infantry. Finally, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) and at the end, of 1916 joined the active forces in France, where he subsequently attained the rank of captain. Mr. Collett resigned his commission in 1921 in order to resume legal studies, and after a, short period with a City firm of solicitors, qualified in that profession in March, 1922. In the same year he joined the Great Western Railway as a Solicitor.
COOKSON (A. C.), M.I.C.E., Stores Superintendent, Great Western Railway. Appointed to his present position in 1927, Mr. Cookson became Assistant Stores Superintendent in 1924, having previously held the position of Steelwork and General Assistant to the Joint Chief Engineers. His present and previous appointments are in accordance with the company's practice of selecting engineers to supervise the Stores Department at Swindon. Mr. Cookson was educated at Rossall School, where he obtained the principal mathematical scholarship, and afterwards gained the Rossall School scholarship at the City and Guilds of London Central Technical College, now one of the constituent colleges of the Imperial College.. In 1888 he gained the Diploma of the College (A.G.G.I.), and completed his engineering training at the works of Messrs. J. & G. Rennie, of Blackfriars. In 1891 he joined the firm of Messrs. Joseph Westwood, of Millwall, bridge and constructional engineers. In 1894 he entered the service of the Great Western Railway Company as an assistant on the staff of the New Works section of the Chief Engineer's Office. In January, 1911, he was appointed Chief Assistant to the Divisional Engineer at Gloucester, and in 1916 was appointed Steelwork and General Assistant to the Chief Engineer. In 1920 the Railway Engineers' Association formed a sub-committee of railway-bridge engineers to revise the standard curve of loading of bridges. Most of the final calculations for this curve were done in Mr. Cookson's office.
COOLING (F. G.), Assistant Controller, Dining-Car Services, Hotel Department, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Cooling was born at Derby in 1880, in which town he entered Midland Railway service in the Midland Hotel Cellars and Stores Department in 1894, as a Junior Clerk. In June, 1895, he was transferred to the Chief Office of the Midland Hotels Department at St. Pancras, and eventually, after serving in various departments, became Chief Clerk to the Hotels Managers in 1901. In 1909 Mr. Cooling was promoted Assistant to the Hotels Managers, and in June, 1919, was made Superintendent of all Midland Refreshment Rooms and Dining-Car Services. His present appointment dates from March, 1925.
COOPER (Charles), Deputy Continental Assistant to Traffic Manager, Southern Railway. Appointed to succeed Mr. W. J. Williams at the end of 1919 as Continental Traffic Agent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. Only son of the late Mr. William Cooper, solicitor, of Congleton, Cheshire, Mr. Charles Cooper joined the service of the Brighton Railway in the Goods Department in 1886, being transferred to the Continental Traffic Department in 1890. He became Deputy Continental Assistant to the Chief Commercial Manager in 1923 and to the Traffic Manager in 1930.
COPLAND (George Milne), Stores Controller and Assistant Purchasing Agent, (Scotland), London Midland and Scottish Railway. — Mr. Copland entered the service of the Caledonian Railway in the Telegraph Department at Buchanan Street, Glasgow, in 1890, and was transferred to the Stores Department at St. Rollox in the following year. In 1910 he was appointed Clerk-in-Charge of the General Stores, St. Rollox, and in 1923 became Chief Assistant to the Stores Superintendent, Northern Division, which position he held until his present appointment, made in 1928.
CORBLE (O. H.), Assistant to Chief General Manager and Industrial Agent, London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. Corbie was educated at Bancroft's School, Woodford, and entered the service of the Great Northern Railway in 1908 in the Secretary's Department, reaching the position of Chief Clerk in 1921. Shortly after the amalgamation he was transferred to the Chief General Manager's Office of the L.N.E.R. to assist Sir Alexander Kaye Butterworth in an investigation into the superannuation and pension funds of the group. In September, 1924, he became head of the Salaried Staff Section of the office, in which position he acted as Secretary of the company's side of Sectional Council No. 1. Mr. Corbie was appointed Assistant to Goods Manager, North Eastern Area, L.N.E.R., in November, 1929, and held that position until receiving his present appointment, which dates from April 1st, 1932.
COTTON (S. O.), Divisional Engineer, Manchester, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Cotton was born in 1885 and educated at Wellington College, Berks. After receiving engineering training at King's College, London, he served a pupilage, from 1905 to 1908, under Mr. L. Trench, Assistant Engineer (New Works) of the late L.N.W.R., and in 1908 entered the service of that company. In 1910 he became Assistant to the Resident Engineer (Mr. J. J. Lee) for the Harrow and Bushey widening, and in 1913 was appointed Resident Engineer for the Loudoun Road to Willesden Section of the Chalk Farm and Kensal Green widening. In May, 1915, Mr. Cotton joined His Majesty's Forces as 2nd Lieutenant in the 115th Company, R.E., and eventually commanded the Company for a short period before demobilisation as Major, R.E. He served in France and Belgium in 1915, and in Egypt and Palestine from 1915 to 1919, during which period he was engaged on railway construction work between Kantara (Suez Canal) and Haifa, Ludd and Jerusalem, and on .a section of the Haifa and Damascus Railway. He rejoined the L.N.W.R. in August, 1919, as Assistant to the Divisional Engineer at Longsight, Manchester, retaining that position under the L.M.S.R. until 1924, when he was appointed District Engineer, Bradford, L.M.S.R. His present appointment was made in the latter part of 1931.
COVENTRY (F. C. A.), O.B.E., Superintendent of Road Transport, Great Western Railway. Born in 1874, and educated at Winchester. In 1893 he entered Swindon Works as a pupil. After a period of work in the Drawing Office, he was appointed an Inspector of Materials, and subsequently became Assistant to the Carriage Works Manager. In 1904 he was transferred to the Traffic Department, and engaged on road motor-car work, which, as is well known, is a very important branch of the Great Western Railway's activities. In 1912 Mr. Coventry was transferred to Paddington as an Assistant to the Superintendent of the Line in charge of train working. At the end of 1915 his services were lent to the Ministry of Munitions. He worked in the Munitions Inland Transport Department as Deputy to Mr. Howard Williams eventually succeeding him when Mr. Williams went to the Coal Controller's Department. In 1919 he became Assistant Superintendent of the Line and as above in 1922.
COWELL (F. H.), District Passenger Manager, Manchester, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Cowell was educated at Rossall, and joined the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in the Chief Traffic Manager's Office, afterwards being transferred to the Goods Train Operating Department. By arrangement with the Administration at Brussels he was sent by the company to the Belgian State Railways to study and report upon their methods in 1907 and 1908. He served as a Train-runner and as Outdoor Assistant to the Superintendent of the Line from 1908 to 1911, and in July of that year was appointed District Superintendent of the Eastern Division of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company. On the amalgamation of the London and North Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways he retained the same office, and continued in a similar capacity with the London Midland and Scottish Railway until January, 1928, when he was appointed Divisional Passenger Commercial Superintendent, Manchester. He received his present title towards the end of last year, on the reorganisation of the Company's Commercial Department.
COX (Edwin Charles), C.B.E., M.V.O., M.Inst.T., Traffic Manager, Southern Railway. Entering the service of the South Eastern Railway in 1883, Mr. Cox was, after three years' training, transferred to the office of the Outdoor Superintendent; and from 1886 to 1901 had experience of every branch of work. For three years he controlled the special traffic section. When, in January. 1902, Mr. Sire resigned the office of Indoor Assistant Superintendent of the Line to accept the appointment of Goods Manager of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and Mr. Moore, the Chief Clerk, was promoted District Superintendent, Mr. Cox was selected for the dual position of Indoor Assistant Superintendent and Chief Clerk. At the beginning of 1910, his advancement as Assistant Superintendent of the Line followed, Mr. Cox becoming Superintendent of the Line in 1911. Upon the formation, in 1906, of the South Eastern and Chatham centre of the St. John Ambulance Association, Mr. Cox was elected Chairman of the Centre Committee. In 1918 H.M. the King of the Belgians created Mr. Cox a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold. On the appointment of Mr. C. Aldington to be Assistant General Manager, and then General Manager, G.W.R., Mr. Cox was, in July, 1919, appointed Chairman of the Superintendents' Conference of the Railway Clearing House for the remainder of the year and for 1920. He was appointed Chief Operating Superintendent, Southern Railway in 1923 and Traffic Manager on March 31, 1930.
COX (F. E. W.), A.M.Inst.C.E., Indoor Assistant to Chief Engineer, Euston, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Cox entered Great Northern Railway service in 1903 as a pupil to the late Mr. Alexander Ross, then Chief Engineer. He became Assistant to the Resident Engineer on the construction of a portion of the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway in 1906. In 1907 he entered the Engineer's Department of the London and North Western Railway, and remained eight years in the Chief Engineer's Office at Euston. In 1915 Mr. Cox was sent to assist the District Engineer of the London and North Western Railway at Manchester on engineering works in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and was transferred in a similar capacity to the Crewe District in 1919. He remained there until his present, appointment, which dates from November, 1927. Mr. Cox is an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
COX (T. B.), Assistant to Chief Accountant, Great Western Railway. Mr. Cox commenced his railway career in 1886, in the Passenger Department of the Audi{ office, the latter being then a separate organization from the Chief Accountant's office, with which it was merged a few years ago. In 1896 Mr. Cox was transferred to the Agreements Department, of which he was placed in charge in 1917, after having served in each of the sections of the department, which principally deals with the apportionment between the various companies of the receipts on " foreign " traffic. When the railways were released from Government control in August, 1921, the reorganization of the Agreements Department, which, owing to control conditions, had fallen from a pre-war staff of 121 to 13, was carried out by Mr. Cox, as also was the further adjustment necessitated by the grouping arrangements under the Railways Act, 1921. His present appointment dates from January, 1926.
CRAMP (C. T.), General Secretary, National Union of Railwaymen, Unity House, London. — Born at Staplehurst, Kent, in 1876, Mr. Cramp entered the service of the Midland Railway Company in 1896 as porter at Shipley. Yorks. Member of the A.S.R.S. All Grades Conference, 1907, delegate to the annual meeting in 1909, and elected to the Executive Committee in 1911. He was re-elected after the fusion of the A.S.R.S. with the O.R.W.U. and U.P & S.S. in 1913, the new body taking the title of the National Union of Railwaymen. Following the retirement of Mr. A. Bellamy, J.P., in 1916, Mr. Cramp was elected President of the union, retaining that office until the end of 1919, when the rules of the Union were altered, and an Industrial General Secretary provided for. In addition to a Parliamentary General Secretary. Mr. Cramp was elected to this position without opposition. He is a keen student of industrial history and economics, a member of the Labour Party Executive Committee, Consumers' Council and various other committees connected with the labour movement. Successfully contested Middlesbrough at the General Election in 1919.
CRIPPS (H. R.), M.Inst.T., Chief Assistant Solicitor, London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. Cripps was born in 1873, and educated at Winchester. After being, admitted, he was for some time in the chambers of the late Lord Moulton. In 1897 he joined the firm of Dyson & Co., becoming senior partner in 1913. Mr. Cripps joined the Army in February, 1915, was commissioned in February, 1916, and raised to the rank of Major. He served on the staff as D.A.Q.M.G. until August, 1919. He joined the Ministry of Transport as Assistant Solicitor on its formation. Mr. Cripps was closely identified with the passing of the Railways Act in 1921, and after the relinquishment of the office of Solicitor to the Ministry of Transport by Sir Francis Dunnell in 1921 Mr. Cripps was Acting Solicitor, until January 1st, 1923, when upon the formation of the London and North Eastern Railway he was appointed to his present position.
CROOK (G. H.), Assistant to Signal Engineer, Great Western Railway. Mr. Crook joined the Telegraph Department of the Great Western Railway in 1898, and was transferred to the combined Signal and Telegraph Department at Reading in 1903. In 1912, he was engaged by the Victorian Railways Commissioners to go to Melbourne in connection with the proposed power signalling scheme then under review, and on commencement of that work he was in charge of the Drawing Office for Power Signalling. he became Power Signalling Construction Engineer in 1919. In 1923 he became Signal and Telegraph Maintenance Engineer. Victorian Government Railways. He received his present Great Western Railway appointment in 1928.
CROZIER (W.), Divisional Passenger Manager, Glasgow, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Crozier started his railway career with the Caledonian Railway at Glassford Station in the year 1889. Two years later he became Booking Clerk at Rutherglen, and was subsequently transferred to the office of the District Superintendent at the Central Station in Glasgow. There he passed through various sections, and in 1899 became Relieving Agent for the Western Division of the line. In this capacity Sir. Crozier had an opportunity at one time or another during the ensuing six years of taking charge of practically all the important Caledonian stations in the busy industrial districts of Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. In 1905 he was appointed to a position in the Rates Department of the General Superintendent's Office at Glasgow, and in that capacity acted as the company's representative on the Passenger Train Rates and Fares Conference at the Clearing House from 1909-1915, being Chairman of the Conference in the latter year. In March, 1916, on the appointment of Mr. Killin as Superintendent of the Caledonian Railway, Mr. Crozier became Assistant Superintendent, and continued in that position in 1923, when he was appointed Divisional Passenger Commercial Superintendent, Glasgow, London Midland and Scottish Railway. He received his present title towards the end of last year, on the reorganisation of the Company's Commercial Department.
CUNNINGTON (A.), Assistant to Chief Engineer for Lighting, Heating and Water, Southern Railway. Mr. Cunnington was educated privately and at the City and Guilds Central Technical College, graduating in science (engineering) at the London University in 1904. He was for several years Assistant to Mr. L. Caster, Consulting Lighting Engineer, and founder of the Illuminating Engineering Society. After gaining a wide experience of lighting installations and accessories, Mr. Cunnington joined the Lighting Department of the London and South Western Railway Engineer's Office in 1912, as Technical Assistant, was placed in charge of the Electric Lighting Section, in 1916, and was appointed Lighting Engineer in January, 1919. His present appointment dates from September, 1923.
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