1932 Who's Who in Railways: Name T
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TATTERSALL (A. E.), Signal and Telegraph Engineer, North Eastern Area, London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. Tattersall was appointed Signal and Telegraph Engineer, North Eastern Area, London and North Eastern Railway, in 1928. He was previously Assistant Signal Engineer, Southern Area, and prior to that appointment held the position of Signal Superintendent for the Great Northern section. Born in 1883, Mr. Tattersall commenced his railway career on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. In 1900, Mr. Tattersall went to Ireland as Chief Assistant to the Signal Superintendent of the Great Southern and Western Railway. In 1907, when the Metropolitan Railway was considering the adoption of power .and automatic signalling, Mr. Tattersall joined that company. As the Metropolitan all-electric signalling was the first installation of its kind in Great Britain, Mr. Tattersall can claim the status of a pioneer. While with the Metropolitan Company, Mr. Tattersall was also concerned with the installation of automatic signalling on the East London Railway, the first where alternating current track circuits were employed. In 1915, Mr. Tattersall was given a commission with the Technical Branch of the R.A.O.C., receiving his captaincy in 1917. He returned to railway service in 1919, and in January, 1921, was appointed Signal Superintendent to the late Great Northern Railway. He is the author of "Modern Developments in Railway Signalling." He is a Member of the Institution of Electrical. Engineers, was Hon. Treasurer of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers, 1922-24, and is a member of the Signal Section of the American Railway Association.
TAYLOR (Ernest), Chief Accountant, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Taylor entered Midland Railway service on March 1, 1893, in the Accountant's Department. He served for a time more particularly in the Joint Lines section. On January 1, 1920, he was appointed Chief Clerk to the Accountant, and on the formation of the London Midland and Scottish Railway became Chief Clerk to the Accountant-General. On January 1, 1928, he was appointed Assistant to the Controller for Costs and Statistics. His present appointment dates from January 1, 1930.
THOM (R. A.), Mechanical Engineer (Doncaster), London and North Eastern Railway. Born at Aberdeen in 1873, Mr. Thom received his scholastic education at public schools in Aberdeen and his technical education at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, subsequently serving an apprenticeship from 1888 to 1893 in the Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works of the Great North of Scotland Railway at Aberdeen. From 1893 to 1898 Mr. Thom remained in the service of the Great North of Scotland Railway as Inspector and Deputy Works Foreman, and in the latter year became Foreman in the Metropolitan Railway Company's Works at Neasden, London, subsequently taking up a position as Works Foreman with Thomas Beeley & Sons, at Hyde Junction, Manchester. In October, 1902, Mr. Thom was appointed Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent (including Running Department) of the old Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway, and continued in that capacity until that railway was absorbed by the Great Central Railway, in January, 1907. He was then transferred to Gorton as Assistant Locomotive Works Manager, and in January, 1913, became Assistant to the Chief Mechanical Engineer. In 1924 he became Mechanical Engineer (Scotland), and in 1927 Mechanical Engineer (Doncaster). Mr. Thom is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Locomotive Engineers, and the Institute of Transport.
THOMAS (J. P.), M.I.E.E., M.Inst.T., Operating Manager (Railways), Metropolitan District and Associated Companies. —Mr. J. P. Thomas, previously Superintendent of the Line, London Electric Railway, was in January, 1915, appointed General Superintendent, London General Omnibus Company, having charge of all the work of operation under the general control of Mr. H. E. Blain, Operating Manager, becoming Assistant Operating Manager in 1919. He is an electrical engineer by training, and was educated at the Durham College of Science. He served an apprenticeship with Messrs. Clarke, Chapman & Co., Ltd., of Gateshead-on-Tyne He was appointed Resident Engineer to the British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., on their London United and Croydon Tramway contracts. Mr. Thomas then became Resident Engineer on the Central London Railway for the conversion of trains from electric locomotive to multiple-unit haulage (these were the first multiple-unit, trains in this country); while in connection with the supply and equipment of rolling stock on the Great Northern and City Line, his services were transferred from the contractors to the railway. In 1905 he was appointed Superintendent of the Line on the three sections of the London Electric Railway, and in due course he was given similar oversight of the Central London and City and South London Tubes when taken over by the Underground Electric Railways Company, Ltd. In 1915 he became Assistant Operating Manager, and in February, 1921, received his present appointment under the revised "Underground" organization.
THOMAS (W. J.), Marine Manager, Dock Department, Great Western Railway. Mr. Thomas joined the Great Western Railway Company in May, 1924, as Engineer-Assistant to the Marine Superintendent (Capt. H. Sharp, who retired in 1926). The Marine Department having been amalgamated with the Dock Department, and placed under the control of the Chief Docks Manager as and from January 1st, 1927, Mr. Thomas received his present appointment. Mr. Thomas is well known in shipping circles, having been Assistant Superintendent and afterwards Chief Superintendent to the Hain Steamship Company, Ltd.
THOMPSON (Edward), Mechanical Engineer (Stratford), London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. Thompson, who was educated at Marlborough and Pembroke College, Cambridge, took his degree in 1902, and subsequently served with Beyer, Peacock and the Midland Railway Company. He left the service of the Midland Railway Company in 1905, to join the staff of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and the following year was appointed to a position in the Running Department of the North Eastern Railway. In March, 1909, he was appointed Assistant Divisional Locomotive Superintendent at Gateshead-on-Tyne, and during his service with the North Eastern Company visited America. Mr. Thompson left the service of the North Eastern Railway on his appointment as Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway at the beginning of 1912, and in March, 1916, went to the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich on war service. In December, 1916, he proceeded to France, where he was attached to the Headquarters Staff of the Director-General of Transportation. By March, 1918, he had reached the rank of Lieut-Col., R.E., had been twice mentioned in dispatches, and awarded the O.B.E., Military Division. Mr. Thompson returned to the Great Northern Railway in 1919, until, in 1920, he rejoined the North Eastern Railway as Manager of the Carriage and Wagon Department at York. In 1923 Mr. Thompson was given the position of Carriage and Wagon Workshops Manager, with office at Darlington, and placed in charge of the Works at York, Shildon and other points. In 1927 he became Assistant Mechanical Engineer (Stratford), Southern Area, and in April, 1930, Mechanical Engineer, Stratford.
THORNHILL (H. L.), M.Inst.T., Chief Legal Adviser, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Thornhill's appointment dates from January 1st, 1927. Prior to this date he was Chief Solicitor as from January, 1924. He became Solicitor, London and North Western Railway in 1921, having been Assistant Solicitor from 1915. On the amalgamation of the London and North Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways, Mr. Thornhill became Solicitor to the combined company, as from January 1st, 1922. He was articled in 1894 to the then Solicitor to the London and North Western Railway. In 1899, Mr. Thornhill was appointed Assistant in the Common Law Department, and in 1903 Parliamentary Assistant under Mr. C. de J. Andrewes, who became in that year Solicitor to the company. In this capacity, Mr. Thornhill acquired extensive experience of Railway and Canal Commission practice. He was away from 1915 to 1919, in France, and during his absence was appointed Assistant Solicitor in May, 1915. He went to the United States in 1920, with Mr. Geoffrey Marshall, Goods Manager of the Great Northern Railway, to study and report on railway rates.
THORNHILL (W. E.), A.M.Inst.C.E.,. Divisional Engineer, Western Division,, Crewe, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Thornhill served a. term of pupilage under the late Mr. E. B. Thornhill, then Chief Engineer of the London and North Western Railway, commencing in 1893. In January, 1895, was appointed to the London and North Western Railway Engineering Staff at Euston, and from 1896 to 1898 served as an Assistant to the Resident Engineer on the construction of the London and North Western Heaton Lodge and Wortley Railway, Yorkshire. Became Resident Engineer in charge of widening works between Chester and Saltney Junction, including the Foryd Viaduct, near Rhyl, and from 1903 to 1910 was Resident Engineer in charge of the construction of the London and North Western Railway Stalbridge Dock and Channel at Garston, Liverpool, and works in connection therewith at Speke and Ditton. From 1910 to May, 1915, Mr. Thornhill was Divisional Engineer in charge of Maintenance on the Central Division, with headquarters at Crewe. From May, 1915, to June, 1919, he was on active service in Belgium, Egypt and Palestine, for most of the time as Officer Commanding, 115th Railway Construction Company, R.E., and as Officer in Charge of Railhead Construction Work on the Sinai and Palestine Military Railways, finishing as Maintenance Engineer for those lines. In October, 1919, he went to Bangor, to take charge of the North Wales District.
THORNTON (J.), M.Inst.T., Superintendent of the Line, Metropolitan District and Associated Railways, for fourteen years held the position of ()filet Inspector of the Metropolitan District Railway. He has had wide experience, starting as a youth in the Goods Department of the Caledonian Railway at Lothian Road. Edinburgh, afterwards serving in various grades with the North British Railway and the Glasgow District Subway. Later, he came to London and obtained experience on the Central London and Great Northern and City Railways before he joined the staff of the Underground.
THURSTON (George Francis), M.Inst.T., Divisional General Manager, Southern Area, London and North Eastern Railway. Mr. Thurston entered Great, Eastern service in the Goods Department at Bishopegate in 1885, and was transferred to the District Goods Manager's Office in 1889, and to the Funds Office in 1890. On the inauguration of the Railway Conciliation Scheme in 1907, he became Secretary of the company's side of the respective boards. He was appointed Secretary of the Superannuation, Pensions and Accident Funds in 1910, and Staff Assistant to the General Manager in 1917. Mr. Thurston was appointed Secretary, Great Eastern Railway in 1919. He became Joint Secretary of the London and North Eastern Railway in January, 1923, and Chief Stores Superintendent in January, 1925. In 1929 he was appointed Divisional General Manager, Southern Area.
TOWLE (A. E,), C.B.E., Controller of Hotels, Refreshment Rooms and Restaurant Car Services, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Appointed under the interim reorganisation scheme dating from January 1st, 1923. Mr. Towle had been since the end of 1919 Manager of Hotels and Refreshment Rooms, Midland Railway with headquarters at St. Pancras. Educated at Marlborough College, after leaving school he spent several years travelling, gaining experience in hotels in America and on the Continent. He entered Midland Railway service in 1896, and on August 5th. 1898, he and his brother, Mr. (now Sir) Francis Towle, became Joint Assistant Managers under their father. On April 21st, 1911 they were associated directly with their father as Joint Managers of Hotels and Refreshment Rooms, and on his retirement in 1914, they took over control jointly. On Sir Francis Towle's retirement towards the end of 1919, Mr. A. E. Towle became sole Manager of Hotels and Refreshment Rooms, and was appointed to his present position at the end of 1924.
TURIER (R. W.), Assistant Controller (Scottish Area), Hotel Department, London Midland and Scottish Railway. Mr. Turier commenced his railway career in the offices of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway Company, at Trinity Square, in 1903. In November, 1904, he joined the Midland Railway Hotels Department, serving at headquarters at St. Pancras under Mr. William Towle and his sons. In 1919 he was appointed Resident Manager of the Queen's Hotel, Leeds, under the direction of Mr. Arthur Towle, and in 1921 was transferred to a similar position at the Midland Ade1phi Hotel, Liverpool. He had held this office until taking up his present appointment, except that in 1924 he acted as Resident Manager for the opening of Gleneagles Hotel and carried this work on during the season. Mr. Turier comes from a railway family, in that his father was connected with the Midland Railway Goods Department in London for many years.
TURNER (T. H.), M.Sc., Chief Chemist and Metallurgist (Doncaster), London and North-Eastern Railway. Mr. Turner was born in Stafford in 1895, and is a son of Emeritus Professor Thomas Turner, M.Sc., A.1t.S.M., F.I.C., formerly Director of Technical Instruction for Staffordshire. He was educated at King Edward's High School, Birmingham, and in the University of Birmingham, where he obtained the Wiggin Scholarship. He then travelled on the Continent. From 1914 to 1918 he was interned in Heidelberg, Berlin, and Ruhleben Camp, incidentally obtaining a useful knowledge of technical German during this period. He took his degree of B.Sc. in Metallurgy at the University of Birmingham in. 1920, and M.Sc. in 1922. After leaving the University he worked for a period as a "College Apprentice" at the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company's works at Trafford Park, Manchester, then serving as Metallurgist in the Research Department of that firm. In 1924 he was appointed Lecturer in Metallurgy at Birmingham University. From 1922 to 1926 he obtained consulting experience in collaboration with his father, Professor Turner. He has, at various periods, visited industrial establishments in Germany, France, Switzerland, U.S.A., and Canada, and has taken part in many metallurgical and other conferences, as well as undertaking original research and, contributing papers on strain in steel, corrosion prevention, casting alloys, and other subjects. He was appointed Chief Chemist and Metallurgist, L.N.E.R., early in 1930.
TYLER (J. F. S.), M.Inst.C.E., Chief Assistant Engineer, Southern Railway. —Mr. Tyler is a son of the late Mr. John Tyler, who was at one time Superintendent of the Line, London and South Western Railway. After being educated in Belgium, he entered London and South Western Railway service in 1884. From 1885 to 1891 he was concerned as Assistant to the Resident Engineer on important widening and construction works in the London area. From 1891 to 1899 he was attached to the Chief Engineer's Department as General Engineering Assistant under the late Mr. E. Andrews. For the next five years he was Resident Engineer in charge of various works, including the construction of the Amesbury and Military Camp Light Railway, Salisbury station reconstruction, and various main line and other widening works. From 1904 to 1908 he was Resident District Engineer on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. From 1908 to 1918 he was a Technical Assistant to the Chief Engineer, becoming, in March, 1914 Principal Assistant. A month later, however, he was placed in charge as District Engineer for the London Division of the London and South Western Railway, until in January, 1919, he received the appointment of Chief Assistant to the Chief Engineer at Headquarters, retaining a corresponding position on the formation of the Southern Railway in 1923.
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