O. S. Nock, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1905
Place of Birth: Sutton Coldfield, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 29-Sep-1994
Profession: chief mechanical engineer
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About O. S. Nock
- Oswald Stevens Nock (21 January 1905 – 29 September 1994), nicknamed Ossie, was a British railway signal engineer and senior manager at the Westinghouse company; he is well known for his prodigious output of popularist publications on railway subjects, including over 100 books, as well as many more technical works on locomotive performance. He authored articles on railway signalling and locomotive performance for The Engineer researched during World War II, and from 1958 to 1980 he succeeded Cecil J.
- Allen as the author of the "British locomotive practice and performance" series published in The Railway Magazine.
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