:Michael Graham Satow
{{Short description|ICI engineer and Rail heritage activist ini India and the United Kingdom}}
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Michael Graham Satow OBE, or simply Mike Satow was an engineer and key figure in railway heritage in India and the United Kingdom. He was pivotal in the establishment of the National Rail Museum, New Delhi, India and creation of a replica of Locomotion No. 1.
Life
Satow was born on 15 June 1916. Educated at Stowe School, he suffered a hip injury playing rugby and spent nine months in a hospital where he learned shorthand and typing. Falling behind in his education, he took a position with a heavy equipment company.
Satow became an engineer and general manager for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), and was a member of the team who built the Wilton Nylon plant on Teesside in 1947.{{Sfnp|Williams|2013}} His father also worked in engineering.{{Sfnp|Bhandari|2008}}
Satow was assigned by ICI to India in 1956, his family joining him there later.{{Sfnp|Williams|2013}} Satow said "The first railway that I can ever recall turning me on was the Matheran Railway".{{sfnp|Cameron|1975|loc=3m}} He developed a passion for steam locomotives constructed in the United Kingdom and exported to India.{{Sfnp|Williams|2013}}
In 1963 he organised for Baguley locomotive works No. 2007 to be recovered from a water pumping station at Barrackpore, India and restored at an ICI subsidiary.{{Sfnp|IRFCA|2021}} He was later to recover that locomotive{{Sfnp|IRFCA|2021}} in 1971 as well as Baldwin Class 10-12-D No. 778 to the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway heritage operation where he was the first president.{{sfnp|Hill|2011|p=6}}
He was appointed an honorary adviser to the National Rail Museum, New Delhi in 1970.{{Sfnp|Williams|2013}}
Satow was awarded an Order of the British Empire In the 1971 Birthday Honours For services to British interests in India.{{London Gazette|issue=45384 |date=4 June 1971 |page=5975 |supp=y}}
In 1975 Satow featured in The World About Us television series in the episode The Romance of Indian Railways.{{Sfnp|Cameron|1975}}
File:Locomotion No. 1, Pockerley Waggonway, Beamish Museum, 1 October 2008.jpg
Satow retired in England and was later involved in the construction of a replica of George Stephenson's 1825 steam engineer Locomotion No. 1 which was exhibited at the Beamish Museum.{{Sfnp|Williams|2013}}
Satow died on 13 November 1993 aged 77.{{Sfnp|Bhandari|2008}}
=Legacy=
In addition to his contributions to preservation Satow amassed a collection of notebooks and papers relating to Indian Railways, the information is catalogued by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.{{sfnp|National Archives|2021}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book |author1=Satow, F. |author2=Satow, M.G. |author3=Wilson, L.S. |title=Locomotion – concept to creation: the story of the reproduction 1973–1975 |publisher=Locomotion Trust |location=Beamish |year=1976}}
- {{cite book |author1=Satow, M. |author2=Desmond, Ray|date=1980|title=Railways of the Raj
|location=London|publisher=Scholar Press|isbn=0859676587|oclc=877295643}}
References
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- {{cite web|last=Bhandari|first=R.R.|date=31 July 2008|title=Eminent Railwaymen of Yesteryears
|id=Michael G. Satow O.B.E.|access-date=26 February 2008|website=Indian Railways Fan Club
|url=https://www.irfca.org/articles/eminent-railwaymen.html}}
- {{cite episode | author-last = Cameron |author-first=James | date = 4 May 1975 | title = The Romance of India Railways
| url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0120460/the-world-about-us-the-romance-of-indian-railways | url-access=limited | publisher = BBC
| series=The World About Us | series-link = The World About Us | access-date = 26 February 2021|authorlink1=James Cameron (journalist)}}
- {{Cite episode| last=Burton|first=Anthony|date=30 Nov 1979|title=The Rainhill Story: Stephenson's Rocket
|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p011w92v/the-rainhill-story-stephensons-rocket|access-date=22 February 2022|url-access=subscription
|series=Steam Railways|station=BBC}}
- {{cite web|last=Hill|first=Nick|date=14 October 2011|title=Application Form for Heritage Grants
|publisher=Leighton Buzzard Railway|access-date=28 February 2021|url=https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A3=ind1208&L=GEM&E=base64&P=3927036&B=------%3D_NextPart_000_001F_01CD816C.B71F8640&T=application%2Fpdf
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210228091331/https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A3=ind1208&L=GEM&E=base64&P=3927036&B=------%3D_NextPart_000_001F_01CD816C.B71F8640&T=application/pdf|archive-date=28 February 2021|url-status=live}}
- {{Cite web|ref={{harvid|IRFCA|2021}}|title=Locomotives: Preserved locos, Names, Miscellaneous
|id=Locomotives transferred or exported outside India|website=Indian Railways Fan Club|url=https://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-loco3.html|access-date=26 February 2021}}
- {{Cite web|editor=Satow, M.|title=Satow collection on Indian railways: notebooks and papers of Michael Satow
|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/3087e5f5-d54b-40a9-b2f0-9d47a49e372e|id=Mss Eur F290
|website=National Archives (United Kingdom)|access-date=26 February 2021|ref={{harvid|National Archives|2021}}}}
- {{cite news|last=Williams|first=Francesca|date=1 February 2013|title=From Teesside's nylon works to India's railways
|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-21265585|website=BBC|access-date=26 February 2021}}
- {{cite book|last1=Verma|first1=Vatsal|last2=Subramanyam|first2=Chitra|editor1-last=Rao|editor1-first=Rupa|editor2-last=Jain|editor2-first=Hina|date=2020
|title=Transforming a Nation's Destiny — Indian Railways — A Visual Journey
|location=London, New Delhi|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|isbn=9780241414842|oclc=1158176899}}
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