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Title
Letter from A.W. Bell, Director and Production Manager, Hawthorne Leslie (Engineers) Ltd. Marine Engineers and Boilermakers, St Peter’s Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE99 1PD to Reginald Hackworth Young, The Cottage, Blanford Road, Reigate, Surrey
Reference
HACK/6/9/1
Production date
14-11-1974 - 14-11-1974

Creator

Hackworth Young, Reginald Biography Biography
Reginald (known as Rex) Hackworth Young was born on 1 August 1905, he was the son of George Edward Young and Henrietta Young. He married Katherine Maitland Davidson. He went into engineering and had a distinguished career working principally on fans and ventilation. He was a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. He wrote a foreward to the 1975 edition of his uncle, Robert Young's book Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive and was present at the opening of the Timothy Hackworth Museum in Shildon. He died on 19 October 1977.

Scope and Content
Letter concerning a Combination Engineers Rule produced by Robert Hawthorn believed to have belonged to Timothy Hackworth, and a gift from Robert Hawthorn.
Extent
1 item
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
National Railway Museum, York