Re: NORTH EAST ENGINE MARINE BUILDERS
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:45 pm
Don't know, his diaries record that he frequently visited the "spa" at Hexham. He might have absorbed aliens during bathing!! Don't know what his death was caused by. His diesel engineering, whilst that technology was still in its infancy, was outstanding. Take a close look at the design of the lower pistons and con rods for the submarine engine and you soon realise that he was a remarkably gifted engineer. He did of course have William Hamilton Purdie as assistant. He also seems to be an outstanding engineer, criticised, unfairly I think, for the recessed fillets on Doxford crankshafts that were blamed for many of the failures that did the reputation of Doxfords a lot of harm.