Captain Cuttle 1927. He died at the Mirafiori stud, near Turin in 1932 after breaking his back in a freak accident. The name "Captain Cuttle" was taken from a character in Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, Captain Edward Cuttle. It was subsequently applied to an LNER Class A3 locomotive, No. 2745 (BR number 60091), many of which class were named for racehorses. Captain Cuttle Captain Cuttle was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He ran only six times in a career which was restricted by chronic injury problems. He was the outstanding British colt of his generation, winning The Derby and
Rob Dickins and one of the founders of the "NME" and started the first ever British Record Charts at the paper in November 1952. Brother Barry Dickins is an agent/promoter and in his teens (mid 1960s) was the agent for The Who, Jimi Hendrix and The Nice. He formed his own Agency/Promotion company, ITB with business partner Rod McSween and is the concert promoter for Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Paul Simon and Diana Ross, amongst many others as well as running the agency. Barry's son Jonathan Dickins worked with Rob at both Warners and Instant Karma before forming his own management company,