BOOKS - TECHNOLOGY - Gresley and His Locomotives L & N E R Design History
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933069
Gresley and His Locomotives L & N E R Design History
Author: Tim Hillier-Graves
Year: 2019
Number of pages: 299
Format: PDF
File size: 54 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2019
Number of pages: 299
Format: PDF
File size: 54 MB
Language: ENG
The story of Gresley's locomotives is a well-trodden path. But our view of his achievements is a blinkered one because it fails to recognise all the other people who played a part in his work. As the leading American aviation engineer Paul S Baker wrote in 1945 ‘the day of one-man engineering is long gone. You might as well print the organisation table of the engineering department when trying to assign credit for a particular design'.