Edgar Alcock
Edgar Alcock (c1877-1951)
1951 Obituary [1]
"EDGAR ALCOCK, O.B.E., whose death occurred at his home in Leeds on 2nd March 1951, at the age of seventy-four, was the chairman and managing director of the Hunslet Engine Company, Ltd., Leeds, and had been associated with that firm for nearly forty years.
He was educated at Christchurch School, the old Collegiate School, and King Edward VI Grammar School, Macclesfield. After serving a premium apprenticeship in the Horwich locomotive works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, under the late Sir John Aspinall, from 1892 to 1897, he held various positions, chiefly those of fitter, with general engineers.
He returned twice to the service of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; on the first occasion he acted as fitter in the running shed at Bolton, and on the second as an outdoor assistant to the chief mechanical engineer, in which position he continued until 1904 when he went to Messrs. Beyer Peacock and Company, Ltd., Gorton, as assistant works manager, where he remained for eight years. This period coincided with the development of the Garratt locomotive. Mr. Alcock began his long connection with the Hunslet Engine Co in 1912 and served the firm with great ability for the remainder of his life. After acting as works manager for five years he joined the board of directors, becoming managing director in 1937 and chairman four years later. He had been a Member of the Institution since 1917, and was elected a member of the Yorkshire Branch Committee at its inception in 1922, remaining on the Committee for eleven years."
1951 Obituary [2]