Sir William Arthur Stanier, FRS[1] (27 May 1876 – 27 September 1965) was a British railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.[2]
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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...
between 1935 and 1946 (not all to LMS order), as a freight version of WilliamStanier's successful Black Five, and the class saw extensive service overseas...
1925 by Henry Fowler, by Ernest Lemon in 1931, and finally in 1932 by WilliamStanier. The major source of friction, however, was the Midland's policy of...
Engineer WilliamStanier, most notably the taper boiler (Stanier would have been familiar with the GWR 4300 Class). In an effort to please Stanier, Horwich...
Sir WilliamStanier School is a co-educational secondary school located in Crewe in the English county of Cheshire. The school is named after William Stanier...
British Army Marny Stanier (born 1962), American TV meteorologist Roger Stanier (1916–1982), Canadian microbiologist WilliamStanier (1876–1965), Chief...
modified LMS Princess Royal Class steam turbine locomotive designed by WilliamStanier and built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1935. It was...
is a class of express passenger 4-6-2 steam locomotive designed by WilliamStanier. Twelve examples were built at Crewe Works, between 1933 and 1935,...
1938 he was appointed Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) under WilliamStanier. He was responsible for the introduction of diesel-electric shunters...
Class is a class of express passenger steam locomotives designed by WilliamStanier. They were an enlarged and improved version of his previous design...
Kings Grove School). The town's two other secondary schools are Sir WilliamStanier School, a specialist technology and arts academy, and St. Thomas More...
Henry Fowler's Patriot class on order, 5552 to 5556, were built with WilliamStanier's taper boiler and so became the first of the Jubilee class. 113 locomotives...
Assistant for Locomotives to the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME), WilliamStanier. Stanier retired in 1944 and was succeeded as CME by Charles Fairburn. When...
compound 3-cylinder drive, based on the Royal Scot. It was rebuilt by WilliamStanier in 1935 with a Type 2 conventional boiler to become 6170 British Legion...
Vice-Presidency, the LMS undertook modernisation of their motive power depots. WilliamStanier had been head-hunted from the Great Western Railway to replace Lemon...
zenith in size and output. Creating notable steam engines such as Sir WilliamStanier's locomotives as well as the 'Jubilee' and Class 5 4-6-0s, the 'Princess...
Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) at Crewe Works to a design by WilliamStanier. It is a 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive built as part of the LMS Coronation...
this clear. He was a talented engineer who was apprenticed with Sir WilliamStanier at the Great Western Railway's Swindon works, which gave him a great...
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