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Charles Benjamin Collett OBE JP MInstCE MIMechE (10 September 1871 – 5 April 1952) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway from 1922 to 1941. He designed (amongst others) the GWR's 4-6-0 Castle and King Class express passenger locomotives.
In January 1922, Charles Collett took over the position of Chief Mechanical Engineer. It cannot have been easy following a man with the charisma of Churchward, but his attitude was milder than that of his predecessor and he was much less domineering though he still insisted upon high quality work and loyalty.
Charles Benjamin Collett (1871-1952) was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway from 1922 to 1941. He designed (amongst others) the GWR's 4-6-0 Castle and King Class express passenger locomotives.
May 9, 2008 · CHARLES Benjamin Collett was a "safe pair of hands". He became chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway after Churchward. Collett was a thoughtful predictable man, with an eye for...
Aug 25, 2023 · The Castles’ designer was Charles Collett, the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the GWR between 1922 and 1941, who coincidentally died 71 years ago on August 23.
No history of the Collett family would be complete without the inclusion of the internationally renowned master of steam railway locomotive design Charles Benjamin Collett [4N28]. He was, and still is, better known simply as C B Collett, the man who brought glamour into the world of railway transportation with his Kings and Castles Classes of ...
Westwood stated that although Charles Collett was responsible for the design of two outstanding British locomotive types, the Castles and Kings of the Great Western, he is often regarded as the man whose stick-in-the-mud outlook ensured that Great Western locomotive technology, so advanced by his predecessor Churchward, would be overtaken by ...
