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Referred to as one of the oldest mechanics at Shildon and still employed in 1857. [1]
1857 Wrote to The Engineer as "one of those employed at the Stockton and Darlington Engine Works since the introduction of engines on the line, and would call the attention of the disputants to the fact that, although Mr. Stephenson furnished the first engines used on this railway, none of them had the blast-pipe ...."[2]
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