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to Britain. Ivatt retired on 2 December 1911. He was succeeded as Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the GNR by
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a design for a sprung flap for vertically-opening carriage windows that became ubiquitous.
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He had six children, the first of whom, Campbell, died as a child in 1898. His son
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Locomotive Depot in 1874, before being promoted to the head of the
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is preserved at York. It was designed by Henry Ivatt in 1897
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was also a locomotive engineer and post-war CME of the
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George Ivatt

Wentworth, Cambridgeshire
Haywards Heath
Sussex

990 Henry Oakley
Wentworth, Cambridgeshire
Chief Mechanical Engineer
Great Northern Railway
Liverpool College
John Ramsbottom
Crewe
London and North Western Railway
Holyhead
Chester
Ireland
Great Southern and Western Railway
Inchicore
patented
England
Great Northern Railway
Patrick Stirling
Samuel Waite Johnson
John Aspinall
Francis William Webb
William Dean
GNR Class C1 (small boiler)
GNR Class C1 (large boiler)
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