Joshua Bradley

BRADLEY, Joshua, MIMechE MILocoE MinsT (1896-1988)

Joshua Bradley was born in Lancashire and educated at its Royal Grammar School, its Mining and Technical College, and at Armstrong College in Newcastle on Tyne. On December 27, 1919 he married Mary Ann (Mollie) Tattum at Wigan, Lancashire, England.

Bradley joined the Madras and South Mahratta Railway Company in 1928 as its Locomotive Workshop Manager and became Chief Mechanical Engineer for this railway in 1945.

In 1950 he sailed from London to Fremantle on the 'Strathmore' with his wife Mollie. He joined the Chief Mechanical Engineers Office of the Western Australian Government Railways under T. Marsland (q.v.) in 1950, and was Chief Mechanical Engineer for the WAGR between 1958 and 1961.

He returned to England and died at Leatherhead, Surrey on March 29, 1988.

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References:
WWA 1962, p. 110;
GUNZ p. 150;
HAIEA (Henry Bradley, AM, 1927).