Talk:Chief mechanical engineer

message: Does the chief have to be a chartered/certified/professional engineer, and a member of the Engineering College/Society/Bar/Guild ? -- 70.49.127.65 (talk) 04:06, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: In Britain, a Chief Mechanical Engineer of a railway was almost always a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Some were also members of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Most were members of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers: not all were though - Charles Collett of the GWR encouraged his staff to join the IMechE and the Civils, but did not permit them to join the ILE. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:33, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Engineer" 

message: Honestly, I've never read anything so ridiculous as the discussions above about whether it's 'Chief Mechanical Engineer' or 'chief mechanical engineer' outside of name+title use. I'm frankly horrified to see it ended up with the entirely wrong result. I came here from the home page presentation of Oliver Bulleid's pacifics, and can only wonder at some people's theory that by decapitalising CME, they think laymen are going to be saved any sort of confusion, or indeed praise this adherence to a consistent style. The simple fact is, anyone who claims that either in historical or contemporary usage, people use/d 'CME' as just a common noun for the name of a position that was no more worthy of capitalisation than 'toilet cleaner' and no more uniquely identifying of a post than 'king', are just wrong, wrong, wrong. While it may have initially only been used as a common noun, there can be no doubt that by the time of the period of Bulleid's pacifics, it had become a proper noun for that unique position. Just like there was King Henry, one of the Kings of England, there was Chief Mechanical Engineer Oliver Bulleid, one of the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the railways. It's amazing that the nonsense talked above about toilet cleaners and internal consistency managed to derail Wikipedia away from this undeniable reality of the English language.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by CME9949 (talk • contribs) 19:11, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proper noun 

message: O. S. Nock became "Chief Mechanical Engineer" of Westinghouse in 1957 (referenced in the article) - a railway job - in a different sort of railway company - I think the article needs to address other contexts such as this.Prof.Haddock (talk) 04:21, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: So you're saying either that Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd was not a railway company, or that other kinds of companies having chief mechanical engineers is somehow odd or railroad-like, or both?  I don't see the issue.  Dicklyon (talk) 04:50, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: OS Nock

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message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:32, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Chief mechanical engineer →  – CME is an official title and is usually capitalized in railway literature. Edwin of Northumbria (talk) 13:08, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

text: This is a contested technical request (permalink). Happily888 (talk) 23:07, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

text: queried move request Happily888 (talk) 23:10, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 9 November 2022