Nevil Shute Norway Foundation   Characters of Trustee from the
Toolroom  By John Forester  This is a tale about one man, a bit
about a few others, and a fictional character. The man was known
as LBSC and the fictional character is Keith Stewart, the
trustee from the toolroom.  I once knew LBSC's real name, but
for decades he was known as LBSC, for the London, Brighton and
South Coast Railway. (Editor's note: According to a note I
recently received from Arno Martens, LBSC's real name was
Lillian Lawrence which he never used. He was known as Curly
Lawrence to his friends.) He was born, maybe in the 1880s, into
a family that had some railway connection, but was impoverished,
probably by the death of his father. He had a mechanical bent,
loved making things. He waited longingly until his mother had
money to replace the broken fireplace grate, so that he could
use the pieces as anvils for his work. His first steam engine
had a cylinder that had started life as a brass cartridge case.
He went to work as an apprent