Francis Edward Gobey
Francis Edward Gobey (1873-1924) of the Newton Heath Works
1924 Obituary [1]
FRANCIS EDWARD GOBEY, 0.B.E., was born at Cirencester, Gloucestershire, on 4th November, 1873, and was educated at Sir Thomas Rich's School, Gloucester, where he obtained a foundation scholarship, and was a Queen's Prizeman in Mathematics in 1889. His school education was followed by courses of instruction at the Municipal School of Science and Art, Gloucester, and the Municipal School of Technology, Manchester.
In 1889 he was Honours Silver Medallist in "Railway Carriage and Wagon Building" under the City and Guilds of London Institute, being placed first in Great Britain.
In the same year he was apprenticed with the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., Gloucester, and on completion of his time in 1897 he obtained an appointment as draughtsman with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Newton Heath, becoming works-assistant in 1901 and chief draughtsman in the following year.
In June 1909 he became works-manager, and a year later was appointed assistant carriage and wagon superintendent. On the amalgamation of the London and North Western and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways, as from 1st January 1922, he became divisional carriage and wagon superintendent (Newton Heath), London and North Western Railway, and in August 1923 he was appointed Divisional Carriage and Wagon Superintendent, London Midland and Scottish Railway (Wolverton).
Mr. Gobey lectured on the subject of railway carriage and wagon building for the Municipal College of Technology, Manchester, from 1900 to 1906 and on "Railway Economics" at the University of Manchester from 1912 to 1918. His death took place on 2nd October 1924, at the age of fifty-one.
He became an Associate Member of this Institution in 1908, and a Member in 1911.