Clive Arthur Peirson Foxell CBE (27 February 1930 – 30 July 2016) was an English physicist who pioneered the use of fibre-optic technology and was an author on the history of the Metropolitan Railway about which he produced a number of books.
[1] Towards the end of the Second World War, Foxell joined the electronics company GEC as an apprentice at its research laboratory in Wembley.
Early in his career, he worked on lighting effects for several films, including Hamlet (1948) and Moby Dick (1956).
[3] Railways were an interest of Foxell from childhood, when he became aware of the Metropolitan Line while cycling to and from school near Chorleywood Common in Hertfordshire.
He got a summer job as a cleaner at Neasden LNER locomotive sheds, where the other workers were mainly Italian prisoners of war.