. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tral Railroad in New York City,in charge of chemical and physical laboratories, material in-spection bureau, service test department and dynamometer cartests. Since 1922 he has served as engineer of materials andequipment tests of the New York Central Railroad, in which position he has had charge of the Service Test Department,Dynamometer Car Tests, Examination of Failed Materialsand the Creation or Development of the Equipment Engineer-ing Departments IMaterial Specifications. M r. Doke for
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tral Railroad in New York City,in charge of chemical and physical laboratories, material in-spection bureau, service test department and dynamometer cartests. Since 1922 he has served as engineer of materials andequipment tests of the New York Central Railroad, in which position he has had charge of the Service Test Department,Dynamometer Car Tests, Examination of Failed Materialsand the Creation or Development of the Equipment Engineer-ing Departments IMaterial Specifications. M r. Doke for sev-eral years past hasbeen an active com-mittee member ofthe American So-ciety for TestingMaterials and theMechanical Divi-sion of the Ameri-can Railway Asso-ciation. He is alsoa member of theCleveland En-gineering Societyand the AmericanSociety of Mechan-ical Engineers. Hiselection as presidentof the Associationof Manufacturers ofChilled Car Wheelsbecame effectiveJanuary 14. It is questionablewhether there aremany men in theInited States todaywho have had thelong experience inresearch and exper-. George E. Doke imental work that Mr. Doke has had in the railroad field. The retention of the chilled cast iron wheel by the railroadsis probablv an economic necessity. The constantly greatercapacities embodied in the more modern designs of cars do,however, present various problems ot design and service towhich the cast iron wheel manufacturers must give attention. Mr. Doke is, therefore splendidly equipped to take up theproblems that arc presented and to carry forward the policyof the association which has in mind the more intensive studyof the designs and the broadening of the service capacities ofthe chilled wheel. The railroad world will doubtless, therefore, welcome gladlythis selection. Obitiiarv S. D. Hutchins, representative of the Westinghouse .\irBrake Company at Columbus, Ohio, died on January 5 in the Mt. CarmelHospital, followingan abdominal oper-ation. He had beenc n j
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