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The Fat Controller ( Sir Topham Hatt ) bought Duck from The Other Railway in 1955 to take Percy's place as station pilot at Tidmouth.
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( Sir Topham Hatt is known in the UK as " The Fat Controller "; since this was the U. S. version of the episode, it would have required redubbing the lines to change the name.
Known in Britain as the Fat Director or Fat Controller, he is always depicted wearing a top hat, a form of dress worn by senior railway employees until the late 1950s.
Thomas and the Fat Controller ’ s Engines ( 1995 )
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As punishment, the Fat Controller ordered that he was bricked up in the tunnel forever.
The Fat Controller gave him special Welsh coal, which helped.
The Fat Controller sent Henry to the works at Crewe, where they rebuilt him into his present shape.
Owing to a mistake, the wrong plans were taken and the locomotive built was so riddled with faults that the only person who could be persuaded to buy it was the Fat Controller ( then the Fat Director ), who at the time was desperate for any locomotive he could get.
The Fat Controller claims that he wanted an Atlantic ( a locomotive with a 4-4-2 wheel arrangement ).
The Island of Sodor also features a biography of the Fat Controller, which mentions that he was apprenticed with Stanier at Swindon Works.
In the Season 5 story ' James & the Trouble with Trees ' some trees are removed because ' The Fat Controller says they're too close to the line.
The Fat Controller brought him to Sodor when there was an engine strike due to a shortage of shunting engines.
After a few years of shunting at the Big Station, the Fat Controller promoted him to goods traffic on Thomas ' branch line.
It is not known where Percy came from, but according to the book Troublesome Engines, he was bought at an " engine workshop " by the Fat Controller.
He is not punished on this occasion, but the Fat Controller is very furious, and threatens to have him painted blue if his bad behaviour continues.
The Fat Controller eventually decides to let him out, and tells him to pull some trucks.
The Fat Controller has seen everything from Edward's train, and is so pleased with James he decides to let him keep his red paint.
Since The Fat Controller had been apprenticed at GWR's Swindon Works, he allowed Duck to return to his original Great Western Railway livery, and retain his number ' 5741 ', which Duck wears proudly on cast brass numberplates on his cab sides.
Despite an incident when a devious engine called Diesel spread lies about him, the Fat Controller realized what a useful engine he had in Duck, and eventually gave him a branch line of his very own.
He makes friends easily, and the Fat Controller says that he makes everything run like clockwork.
Fat and Sir
Sir Topham Hatt ( the " Fat Controller ") rewarded her with two coaches of her own.
* The Fat Controller ( Sir Topham Hatt ), the head of the railway in The Railway Series of books written by the Reverend W. V.
The Sodor & Mainland Railway's finances collapsed in 1910 and finally the company amalgamated with other small railways on the island under military pressure in 1914, to form the North Western Railway ( NWR ), now under the direction of its CEO, Sir Topham Hatt, better known as The Fat Controller.
Fat and Hatt
* In the series Thomas the Tank Engine, the Fat Controller's mother is known as Dowager Hatt.
Fat and Duck
Scrambled Egg and Bacon Ice Cream, a dish served at The Fat Duck restaurant.
In 2005, 600 food critics writing for the British Restaurant magazine named 14 British restaurants among the 50 best restaurants in the world, with the number one spot going to The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire and its chef Heston Blumenthal.
In 2008, McKean collaborated with Heston Blumenthal on The Fat Duck Cookbook, an autobiography, compilation of key recipes and insight into Blumenthal's scientific method.
* The Michelin star chef Heston Blumenthal, owner of The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire ( voted Best Restaurant in the World in 2005 ) lives in Marlow.
* Frederick the Duck ( 3 pages ) ( Fat Freddy's Comics & Stories # 1
In the 2013 edition of the Guide, Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck and Simon Rogan's L ' Enclume shared a perfect score of ten.
The Fat Duck
The Fat Duck is a restaurant run by chef Heston Blumenthal in the centre of Bray.
* Heston Blumenthal-the TV chef runs The Fat Duck and the Hinds Head Hotel restaurants in Bray
* Heston Blumenthal, TV chef and owner of The Fat Duck
The Fat Duck is a restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, England.
The Fat Duck is located in Bray, Berkshire in the High Street.
The Fat Duck is located in a 16th-century cottage that was further modified in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Heston Blumenthal, chef proprietor of The Fat Duck
The following year the listing ranked The Fat Duck as the best restaurant in the world, At the first Front of House Awards in 2007, the restaurant won the awards for Overall Service and Front Desk of the Year.
In 2008, Blumenthal published The Big Fat Duck Cookbook, following his Channel 4 series Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection.
Matthew Fort reviewed the restaurant for The Guardian in 2005, he said that " there is no doubt that the Fat Duck is a great restaurant and Heston Blumenthal the most original and remarkable chef this country has ever produced ".
The editor of the guide, Elizabeth Carter, explained the reason for the score, " It's extremely rare that a restaurant cooks perfectly on a consistent basis, but we've had so many superlative reports that we're delighted to recognise The Fat Duck as the best restaurant in Britain.
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