who is this then?

[hq1hitchin]

Slightly whimsical, this one.Who is this giant?

[52A]

*&£"!!%% Thompson?!

[hq1hitchin]

No sir, not Ned

[sirbrian]

I think it is Oliver Bulleid. I met him once many years ago when I was a boy. He encouraged me to go in to railway engineering and here I am still working in railway vehicle technology so many years later.

Sir Brian

[jwealleans]

Bulleid was my first reaction as well.

[hq1hitchin]

Well done, both - it a portrait taken when he was elected President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1946. Most photographs I have seen of him always seem to show a slightly quizzical, diffident, look on his face. A great engineer, from everything to locomotives to the coat hanger he designed for sleeping car berths to enable you to hang your jacket up before you had to hang up your trousers deserved wider application!

[73D]

I would like to use the picture on the Bulleid Society site and wondered where you scanned it from?

As you say it is a much better picture than the usual ones!

[hq1hitchin]

Yes, certainly


http://heritage.imeche.org/historyimech ... ulleid.htm

[73D]

Many thanks.

I have sent off an email to see if I can use the picture.

Just had a quick look and the the Institute of Mechanical Engineers site and it seems to be well worth a visit!

[richard]

73D: Let me know the reply. If they're positive, I'll contact them and see if I can use it with permission on the lner.info's Bulleid page.


Richard

[CVR1865]

any more info about this coat hanger it has me confused?

[Solario]

The coat hanger was attributed to Bulleid & Newsome.

The bar for hanging the trousers is above the jacket hanger, so it is very logical - jacket off first and could be hung up immediately, followed by trousers.

The sleeping car at Pickering has (or had) these hangers when I used to stay there, although it is an LMR carriage.

It is visible in the picture, above the bed, this is a first class LNER sleeper. ( I hope the quality of the picture is better than the preview).

[60041]

Maybe Bulleid should have stuck to designing coat hangers; it looks to be a more practical device than the Leader was!

[sirbrian]

For those of you who don't know, Norman Newsome was the LNER Carriage And Wagon Engineer. He was responsible for the all-steel pressure-ventilated carriages that the LNER built after WW 2. These carriages were the finest and best riding carriages in the UK until the BR Mk. 2's and 3's were introduced many years later.

Sir Brian

[hq1hitchin]

Sorry, Sir Brian, I have to disagree with you there. In the late 60s on the ECML, the finest riding vehicles and most comfortably upholstered we found to be the late build of BR Mk1 stock on Commonwealth bogies, far superior to the B4 shod stuff , inc the early Mk2 coaches, although giving a heavier tare weight and needing more maintenance. I speak as a young scoundrel who almost had a Gresley RB formed into the Talisman, the 1600 KX -ED one day. I was foiled but did get Thompson SLSTP 1767 (sleeper) into the 2335 KX-ED one night and rode in it. It rode v badly compared to it's BR replacements, I wished I hadn't bothered, esp when I heard the attendant dealing with the complaints from other passengers in the morning!

Came the Mk3 vehicle on BT10 bogies, of course, and everything that went before it seemed inferior in ride quality. I read that Iarnrod Eireann have some for sale, any chance we could get them back here and in service?