Donald Arthur David Reeve CBE (1923–1994) was a British civil engineer.
Reeve was born in 1923 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire.[1][2] He became Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive of the Severn Trent Water Authority by 1985 when he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours.[3] Reeve was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the November 1985 to November 1986 session.[4] On 22 May 1986, he officially named a British Rail Class 47 locomotive (no. 47366) as The Institution of Civil Engineers at Liverpool Lime Street railway station.[5] Locomotive 47366 was scrapped in 1999 but the name had been officially transferred to locomotive number 47969, another British Rail Class 47, on 2 September 1991.[6][7] This unit (renumbered 47540) was withdrawn from service in 2003 and is currently located at the Wensleydale Railway, a heritage railway line.[7] Reeve himself died in 1994 in the West Midlands.[1]
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