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BIOGRAPHY Lemon was educated at Herriot Watt College . He served an apprenticeship with the North British Locomotive Company and then worked for the Highland Railway and for Hurst Nelson . In 1911 Lemon became Chief Wagon Inspector of the Midland Railway in England . In 1917 he was made Carriage Works Manager at Derby . In 1923 he was appointed Divisional Carriage and Wagon Superintendent at Derby. There he developed production line methods for the construction of Wagon s and Carriage s. Despite having little experience in locomotive engineering, in 1931 Lemon was appointed to the post of Chief Mechanical Engineer replacing the retiring Henry Fowler . After less than a year as CME however, Lemon was again promoted to Vice-President Railway Traffic, Operating and Commercial, replacing J.H. Follows who retired due to ill health. Under his Vice-Presidency, the LMS undertook modernisation of their Motive Power Depot s. William Stanier had been head-hunted from the Great Western Railway to replace him as CME and revolutionised the LMS's locomotive policy. During the Second World War Lemon was made Director-General of Aircraft Production and was knighted. In 1942 and 1943 he was President of the Institution Of Electrical Engineers . He retired from the railway in 1948 and died in Epsom in 1954 . EXTERNAL LINKS
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