MORRIS, Al

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.”