Editing Robert Riddles (section)

===British Railways===
Upon the creation of the [[Railway Executive]] in 1947, in preparation for the nationalisation of the railways in 1948, he was appointed Member of the Railway Executive for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. He had two principal assistants, both of whom were also former LMS men: [[Roland Bond|Roland C. Bond]], Chief Officer (Locomotive Construction and Maintenance), and [[Earnest Stewart Cox|E. S. Cox]], Executive Officer (Design). The duties of the three effectively covered the old post of [[Chief Mechanical Engineer]] and they subsequently oversaw the design of the [[British Railways]] (BR) [[BR standard classes|standard classes]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gilbert |first1=P.T. |last2=Chancellor |first2=P.J. |editor-last=Taylor |editor-first=R.K. |title=Volume One: Background to Standardisation and the Pacific Classes |series=A Detailed History of British Railways Standard Steam Locomotives |year=1994 |publisher=[[Railway Correspondence and Travel Society|RCTS]] |location=Lincoln |isbn=0-901115-81-9 |page=15 }}</ref>