Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

William Naylor (5)

From Graces Guide

Pupil mechanical engineer at Haydock Colliery, Lancashire

Worked on various railways

c.1838 Assistant Locomotive Superintendent for a district of the London and South Western Railway

c.1850 Assistant Locomotive Superintendent for the Norfolk District of the Eastern Counties Railway

c. 1857 Joined the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Co in Great Britain of Broad St, London, designing rolling stock, machinery permanent way materials, etc.

1865 Working for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Co. of Broad St, London, when he applied for membership of the Inst of Civil Engineers[1]

1871 Conducted experiments on an automatic mechanical train brake on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway.

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Sources of Information

  1. Civil Engineer Records