Sir Vincent Raven KBE
(1858-1934)

last chief mechanical engineer of the North Eastern Railway (1910-1922), Woolwich Arsenal Superintendant (1915-1919), Knight of the British Empire (from 1917), and President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (1924-1925)

Died aged c. 76

Sir Vincent Litchfield Raven, KBE (3 December 1859 – 14 February 1934) was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the North Eastern Railway from 1910 to 1922.

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Gateshead, United Kingdom

Sir Vincent Litchfield Raven, KBE (1858-1934). Last chief mechanical engineer of the North Eastern Railway 1910-1922. Superintendant at Woolwich Arsenal 1915-9. Knighted and awarded KBE in 1917. President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers 1924-5.

Former Greensfield Locomotive Works Building, Fletcher Road, Ochre Yards, Gateshead, United Kingdom where they was