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Isaac Watt Boulton (2971 words) |
 | I.W. Boulton was always proud of this connection, to which he owed his second baptismal name and which he endeavoured to perpetuate in the family record by passing on the distinguished cognomen to his fourth son, Mr. |
| Boulton on more than one occasion found gentlemen of position in the locomotive world and who were supposed to know everything about locomotives, quite unable to get her to move even with a full head of steam blowing off from the safety valves, an experience he often laughingly referred to in after life. |
| Boulton was nevertheless unwilling to abandon his patent, trusting that improvements in design or construction would eventually abate the prejudice, as he considered it. |
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