Editing Oliver Bulleid (section)

== Early life and Great Northern Railway ==
He was born in [[Invercargill]], [[New Zealand]], to William Bulleid and his wife Marian Pugh,<ref name=NZrecords>{{cite web| url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-RXZC| url-access=registration| title=Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid: New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966| website=FamilySearch.org| date=27 November 2017| accessdate=16 March 2021}}</ref><ref name=FamilySearchtree>{{cite web| url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G7QQ-H7L| url-access=registration| title=Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid| website=FamilySearch.org| accessdate=16 March 2021}}</ref> both British immigrants. On the death of his father in 1889, his mother returned to [[Llanfyllin]], [[Wales]], where the family home had been, with Bulleid. In 1901, after a technical education at [[Accrington Grammar School]], he joined the [[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|Great Northern Railway]] (GNR) at [[Doncaster]] at the age of 18, as an apprentice under [[Henry Ivatt]], the [[Chief Mechanical Engineer]] (CME).<ref name="steamindex">{{cite web| last=Jones| first=Kevin P.| title=Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid| work=SteamIndex |url=https://steamindex.com/people/bulleid.htm |access-date=2009-03-10}}</ref> After a four-year apprenticeship, he became the assistant to the Locomotive Running Superintendent, and a year later, the Doncaster Works manager. In 1908, he left to work in [[Paris]] with the French division of [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]] as a Test Engineer, and was soon promoted to Assistant Works Manager and Chief Draughtsman. Later that year, he married Marjorie Ivatt, Henry Ivatt's youngest daughter.

A brief period working for the [[Board of Trade]] followed from 1910, arranging exhibitions in Brussels, Paris and Turin. He was able to travel widely in Europe, later including a trip with [[Nigel Gresley]], [[William Stanier]] and [[Frederick Hawksworth]], to Belgium, in 1934, to see a metre-gauge bogie locomotive.<ref name="steamindex" /> In December 1912, he rejoined the GNR as Personal Assistant to Nigel Gresley, the new CME. Gresley was only six years Bulleid's senior. The [[World War I|First World War]] intervened; Bulleid joined the [[British Army]] and was assigned to the rail transport arm, rising to the rank of Major. After the war, Bulleid returned to the GNR as the Manager of the Wagon and Carriage Works.