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Gresley's Master Engineer, Bert Spencer : A Career in Railway Engineering and Design by Tim Hillier-Graves (2023, Hardcover)
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To have a very capable person beside you acting as guide, confidant and adviser is essential. If all these skills can be combined in one trusted, assistant so much the better. All this has been edited together to produce a unique and important personal narrative of his life and work.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPen & Sword Books The Limited
ISBN-101399045075
ISBN-139781399045070
eBay Product ID (ePID)10063198935
Product Key Features
Book TitleGresley's Master Engineer, Bert Spencer : a Career in Railway Engineering and Design
Number of Pages247 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicRailroads / History, Business
Publication Year2023
IllustratorYes
GenreTransportation, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorTim Hillier-Graves
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Length9.7 in
Item Width6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal625.261092
SynopsisThe great and the good rarely, if ever, accomplish all they wish to achieve without the able assistance of many skilled men and women. To have a very capable person beside you acting as guide, confidant and adviser is essential. Even better when it is someone with a depth of knowledge equal to, or even better than your own. If all these skills can be combined in one trusted, assistant so much the better. To a leader such a person may be valued 'beyond rubies', because they have the ability to take ideas, add something and help make them a reality.For Herbert Nigel Gresley, CME of the LNER, Bert Spencer was just such a man. As Gresley triumphed his faithful, introverted and highly talented assistant remained resolutely in the background playing an unsung yet key role in the development of Gresley's outstanding Pacifics and his many other memorable locomotives. For sixteen vibrant years Spencer sat beside his greatly admired leader witnessing and participating in all that happened adding much to an emerging legend that still resounds with us today.Here, for the first time, is Spencer's fascinating story, much of it in his own words. This was made possible by the thoughts and memories he recorded in letters to friends, papers he wrote for the Institution of Locomotive Engineers, official documents and much more. All this has been edited together to produce a unique and important personal narrative of his life and work.
