Roland Bond

Roland Curling Bond (5 May 1903 — 20 December 1980) was a British locomotive engineer.

Biography

Bond was born in Ipswich in 1903, and became interested in railways when staying in Yarmouth during the Great War. He was educated at Tonbridge School.

Bond joined the Midland Railway in 1920, from 1923 part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway until 1925. He was an apprentice under Henry Fowler. He then became Assistant Works Manager at the Vulcan Foundry.

in 1931 Bond returned to the LMS, becoming Assistant Works Superintendent at Horwich, and in 1933 moving to Assistant Works Superintendent at Crewe. On the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Bond was sent to Scotland as Acting Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, acting for R.A. Riddles. In 1941 he moved back to Crewe to become Works Superintendent and helped drive efficient locomotive and munitions work there.

In 1946, on the abolition of the Railway Executive in 1953, Bond became CME, BR Central Staff and later in 1965 General Manager, BR Workshops. He retired in 1970 and died in 1980, aged 77.

Bibliography

* A Lifetime with Locomotives (Goose & Son, 1975).

External links

* http://www.steamindex.com/people/bond.htm