In the 1891 census Searle is still at 282 New Cross Road with his siblings and he is described as a 16-year-old steam engine fitters apprentice.
12.
In the programme, Noakes references his former occupation where he trained as an aircraft engine fitter for the RAF and BOAC before deciding to become an actor.
13.
An appeal to the Railway Executive Committee arranged for 19 locomotives to be loaned from other lines to assist but promises to release railway engine fitters from the forces were vain.
14.
As the war progressed, a comprehensive training program was established in which mechanics were trained in nine different trades : welders, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, engine fitters, general fitters, riggers, electricians, magneto-repairers, and machinists.
15.
The depot usually supplied an immaculately turned out D15 Claud Hamilton 4-4-0 class and at the time of Parker's article Stratford engine fitter Day had been accompanying the royal train for twenty years.
16.
His grandfather, Ephraim Wright, was an Engine Fitter; Ephraim died at the age of 34 on November 26, 1894 at the South Eastern Hospital in Deptford, the victim of enteric fever-also known as typhoid.
17.
The length of training within each section varied, but was generally between eight to 12 weeks; the more complex trades such as engine fitter required trainees to undertake multiple training courses across a number of sections.
18.
He became an engineer and diesel engine fitter and served with the Home Guard during World War II . He was elected a councillor on Eccles Borough Council in 1945 and was leader of the Labour Group.
19.
Leigh was assigned service number 568142 and attached to A Squadron, No . 1 Wing as an aero engine Fitter II . He was promoted to leading apprentice which usually involved commanding a room of 21 junior boys.
20.
Twenty locomotives were loaned from other railways; efforts to get engine fitters failed . 756 of the 3000 Highland Railway staff served active service and a memorial to 87 that died was placed in Station Square at Inverness.
