Charles Fairburn
Charles Fairburn | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 September 1887 |
| Died | 12 October 1945 (aged 58) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Brasenose College, Oxford |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Electrical |
Charles Edward Fairburn (5 September 1887 – 12 October 1945) was an English electrical engineer whose work mainly concerned rail transport.
Born in Bradford in 1887, and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, his career included railway electrification work undertaken in the 1910s at the Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works Ltd., then similar work at English Electric in the 1920s where he also was involved in electric traction development work. In 1934 he joined the London, Midland and Scottish Railway where he was responsible for the introduction of new classes of diesel-electric shunting locomotives - he became Chief Mechanical Engineer of the company in the 1940s, but died in 1945 aged 58.