Captain John Meredith Rubury (c1878-1957)
1878 Born[1]
1884 Born[2]
1910 With Argylls Ltd and Henri Perrot, patented "Improvements in or relating to Front Wheel Brakes for Motor Vehicles."
1910 With John Smart Matthew and Henri Perrot, patented "Improvements in or relating to Valve Gear for Internal Combustion Engines."
1911 Lodging at 1 Chaucer Road, Acton W: John Meredith Rubury (age 33 born Aston Clinton, Bucks), Motor Car Draughtsman.[3]
1914 Married Gwendoline Steele in Rotherham[4]
WWI Captain R.A.S.C.; in charge of motor transport
1919 Patent on "Improvements in and relating to variable velocity ratio gearing for motor vehicles and the like."
1920 Patent on "Improvements in and relating to the lubrication of internal combustion engines", also other patents on bearings and valve gear for internal combustion engines.
1920 J. M. Rubury of the Argyll (London) Motor and Engineering Co designed the Rubury-Lindsay light car
Later patents on front wheel brakes and on universal joints
1927 Patent with Lake and Elliot on lifting jacks, and several more on this topic and on the topics of his earlier patents.
1937 onwards: patents with William Richard Hammond and/or Hammond Engineering Co Ltd on compressors and engines with rotary vanes, and on dough handling machines.
1939 Technical director, designer and mechanical engineer, lived in Enfield with Gwendoline F Rubury 51, Donald M Rubury 24, engineering assistant, aircraft components[5]
1957 November 18th. Died in Enfield[6].