Ramsey Kendal
Ramsey Kendal ( -1932)
Locomotive Department, North Eastern Railway, Gateshead.
1932 Obituary [1]
RAMSEY KENDAL had been a Member of the Institution for fifty-one years, having been elected in 1881. He was for many years connected with the locomotive department of the North Eastern Railway, in which he served his apprenticeship at Gateshead.
After a brief training in mining engineering, he was offered the position of boiler inspector at the Gateshead railway works and some years later was appointed works manager at the Darlington locomotive works. Under his management a number of noteworthy innovations were made, such as the introduction of electric cranes in the erecting shop.
He left the company about four years before the War to join the firm of Messrs. J. Stone and Company, and he retired after about four years with this firm.
His death occurred on 20th August 1932.