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<span style="color:#006400">'''MORRIS, Albert Joshua'''</span> ( - ) had a 20-year career working on the ''[[Vaquero]]'' as chief engineer and later captain for Vail & Vickers in the 1920s and 1930s. According to Al's son, Claude Morris (1918-2010): | <span style="color:#006400">'''MORRIS, Albert Joshua'''</span> ( - ) had a 20-year career working on the ''[[Vaquero]]'' as chief engineer and later captain for Vail & Vickers in the 1920s and 1930s. According to Al's son, Claude Morris (1918-2010): | ||
: “Papa, while working on the Western Enterprise diesel engine in the ''Vaquero'' lost an eye. He was removing a yoke holding starting cylinder air valve that had an air pressure behind it because of a leaky main air valve. With the yoke removed he taped the valve which blew out and it smashed his eye against his nose. He wore a glass eye the rest of his life.” | : “Papa, while working on the Western Enterprise diesel engine in the ''Vaquero'' lost an eye. He was removing a yoke holding starting cylinder air valve that had an air pressure behind it because of a leaky main air valve. With the yoke removed he taped the valve which blew out and it smashed his eye against his nose. He wore a glass eye the rest of his life.” | ||
Albert J. Morris = | |||
* Harold Morris | |||
* Donald Morris | |||
* David Morris ~ worked many seasons on the ''Vaquero'' | |||
* Lyford Merril Morris (1915-1979) [SS#549-14-7644 ] | |||
* Claude Morris (1918-2010) | |||
: Peter Morris | |||
: Kenneth Morris | |||
Revision as of 22:37, 6 January 2016
MORRIS, Albert Joshua ( - ) had a 20-year career working on the Vaquero as chief engineer and later captain for Vail & Vickers in the 1920s and 1930s. According to Al's son, Claude Morris (1918-2010):
- “Papa, while working on the Western Enterprise diesel engine in the Vaquero lost an eye. He was removing a yoke holding starting cylinder air valve that had an air pressure behind it because of a leaky main air valve. With the yoke removed he taped the valve which blew out and it smashed his eye against his nose. He wore a glass eye the rest of his life.”
Albert J. Morris =
- Harold Morris
- Donald Morris
- David Morris ~ worked many seasons on the Vaquero
- Lyford Merril Morris (1915-1979) [SS#549-14-7644 ]
- Claude Morris (1918-2010)
- Peter Morris
- Kenneth Morris
