biography
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Stanier, Sir William Arthur
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| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1965)
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| biography:
| Mechanical engineer, born in Swindon, Wiltshire, S England, UK. He began as an apprentice at the Great Western Railway works there in 1892, and ended his railway career as chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (1932–42). During that time he brought out many successful locomotive designs, including in 1937 the 4–6–2 ‘Coronation’ class, at first streamlined and later in conventional form with distinctive tapered boilers. |
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