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Sir William Arthur Stanier, FRS (27 May 1876 – 27 September 1965) was a British railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
William Arthur Stanier ( Swindon, 27 maggio 1876 – Watford, 27 settembre 1965) è stato un ingegnere inglese . Chief Mechanical Engineer della London, Midland and Scottish Railway, che si distinse per i suoi progetti di locomotive a vapore . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Progetti di locomotive. 3 Vita privata. 4 Note. 5 Bibliografia. 5.1 Biografia.
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Coronation Class [a] is a class of express passenger steam locomotives designed by William Stanier. They were an enlarged and improved version of his previous design, the LMS Princess Royal Class, and on test were the most powerful steam locomotives ever used in Britain at 2,511 dbhp. [1]
The arrival of the new chief mechanical engineer, William Stanier, who was brought in from the Great Western Railway by Josiah Stamp in 1932, heralded a change. Stanier introduced practices used at the Swindon Works that had been introduced by George Jackson Churchward, such as tapered
Sir William Stanier FRS. William Stanier was born in 1876, and became an apprentice in the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Swindon in 1892. From 1897 to 1900, Stanier worked as a draughtsman, before becoming Inspector of Materials in 1900. In 1904, Churchward appointed him as Assistant to the Divisional Locomotive Superintendent at London.
Obituary. William Arthur Stanier, 1876-1965. Harold Brewer Hartley. Published: 01 November 1966 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1966.0024. Abstract. The Staniers were a Staffordshire family and Stanier’s father, W. H. Stanier, joined the Great Western Railway at Wolverhampton in the early 1860s.
Sir William Stanier - A New Biography. Author : John Chacksfield. ISBN : 9780853615767. Cover : paperback. Price : £11.95. Sir William Stanier has had many books written about his locomotives plus two previous biographical accounts of his engineering career in the railway sphere.
