When working for the GWR, Holcroft collaborated with Sir Nigel Gresley to invent and patent the Gresley conjugated valve gear for three-cylinder steam locomotives.
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Holcroft’s conjugation mechanism was a revision of Nigel Gresley’s method of operating the "inside" cylinder via an extension of the "outside" valve spindles on LNER locomotives.
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