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THE Engineer for October 22 records the death of MR. C. J. BOWEN COOKE on October 18 in his sixty-second year. Mr. Bowen Cooke was educated at King's College School, London, and on the Continent, and thereafter spent the whole of his life in the service of the London and North-Western Railway. After serving a pupilage under the late Mr. F. W. Webb, he was appointed assistant in the running department, and rose to be its superintendent. In 1909 he was appointed chief mechanical engineer, and thereafter was responsible for the design of several important types of locomotive engines. The chief of these was a non-compound superheater engine weighing 116 tons and having four cylinders; this engine was fitted with Walschaert's valve gear. Mr. Bowen Cooke took a very active part in the development of the manufacture of munitions of war in railway workshops., and was made C.B.E. in 1918. He was a member of both the Institutions of Civil and Mechanical Engineers, a Justice of the Peace and County Councillor for Cheshire, and a major in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps. He was the author of two books on locomotives, and also of a paper on the mechanical handling of coal for British locomotives, read at the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1912.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 287 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106287a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106287a0