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Locomotive Superintendent and R. E. L. Maunsell as Works Manager at Inchichore the whole department was run with a smoothness to equal anything in the British Isles". The increased salary with a free house finally met the income stipulations of Edith's father and
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Maunsell's key skill was engineering management rather than locomotive design, and he made use of design teams to create easy-to-maintain locomotives that could operate the required services with effective performance.
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Schools Class, which were the ultimate and very successful development of the British 4-4-0 express passenger type. He also introduced pulverised fuel equipment and new types of
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Maunsell was to meet his future wife, Edith Pearson. He evidently impressed Edith as she was to send him a letter in March 1893 requesting a tour of the grain elevator at
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Maunsell was known to frequently stress the dictum "make everything get-at-able". He was responsible for several notable locomotive classes and related equipment.
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on 23 October 1886 for a law degree; however by this stage he had shown a keen interest in engineering. He concurrently began an apprenticeship at the
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of eight locomotives which were generally thought of as quite successful. While these were an incremental development of a series of GS&WR
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Clayton), published 15 February 1923, Improvements in or relating to condensers for lubricators of the condensation type
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enabled Maunsell to marry Edith on 15 June 1896 in London. Maunsell moved up to become locomotive superintendent in 1911.
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Maunsell's locomotives were the first on the GS&WR to use superheaters and piston valves. With Maunsell departing
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346:for his efforts during the First World War.
218:from 1882 to 1886. He commenced studies at
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885:Clements, Jeremy; McMahon, Michael (2008).
868:Richard Maunsell - An Engineering Biography
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1005:Great Southern and Western Railway
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228:Great Southern and Western Railway
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194:and then the post of CME of the
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175:Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell
32:Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell
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721:"Mr. R. E. L. Maunsell"
220:Trinity College, Dublin
887:Locomotives of the GSR
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950:Swift, Peter (2012).
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344:1918 New Year Honours
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385:Sir William Goulding
190:from 1913 until the
152:SR Lord Nelson class
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287:on the GS&WR.,
132:Locomotive engineer
1169:People from Raheny
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688:Chacksfield (2010)
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268:Maunsell went to
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748:Nock (1982)
701:"No. 30460"
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375:Robert Coey
368:Irish Steam
357:Locomotives
349:He died in
293:Henry Ivatt
289:Robert Coey
232:H. A. Ivatt
64:26 May 1868
1098:Categories
1080:1923–1937
1039:1913–1923
1009:1911–1913
934:0715379615
913:Nock, O.S.
847:13 January
825:13 January
803:13 January
544:References
466:valve gear
462:SR V class
364:O. S. Nock
280:District.
254:District.
164:Blundell's
129:Discipline
60:1868-05-26
905:547074718
733:21 August
726:The Times
405:Inchicore
325:Billinton
297:O.S. Nock
285:Inchicore
252:Fleetwood
248:Blackpool
206:Biography
915:(1982).
488:See also
259:Aspinall
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