The British Railways design team

CS Cocks of course not to be confused with

ES Cox who was Chief electrical engineer

with the Southern

 

 

CS Cocks was born in Gorton in 1897. Cocks had been employed in the drawing office at Gorton (former GCR) until 1927 when he moved to Doncaster. He did not know Bulleid during his LNER days and transferred to the Southern Railway in 1937 where he had to interpret his chief's unusual wishes, especially those relating to the Leader class. In 1949 he transferred to Derby as chief draughtsman in succession to Coleman. He was a member of the design team for the British Railways Standard locomotives, and was a member of the committee which organized the 1948 interchange trials. Langridge  notes that he had been informed by Cocks that Gresley would sit at a draughtsman's board discussing something, quite oblivious of the passing of the 'Knocking-off' time; he was one of the very few designing CMEs. Langridge notes that Cocks was far less orderly than Clayton and was sometimes an impatient man.