John Clifford Savage
John Clifford Savage (1891-1945) of Savage and Parsons
1891 Born on the Isle of Wight[1]
1909 Commenced aircraft construction
1911-14 skywriting experimental work
1912-14 partner in B. C. Hucks' Aviation Co.
1915 Directory: a merchant of Oxford Street, London[2]
WWI Served in the R.N.A.S. and R.A.F.
1919-30 operated skywriting in United Kingdom, Europe and America
1920 Patent on the utilization of aircraft for advertising and amusement and for scientific demonstration and like purposes by the formation of a visible trail of smoke. This was followed by several other related patents
1919-21 commercial manager to British Aero Transport Co.
1925 Canadian patent relating to aerial craft
1926 An engineer, when he arrived in Southampton from New York with his wife Pauline[3]
1927 Patent on an optical-projection apparatus for projecting signs on to clouds or other distant screens, without the use of a stencil or other facsimile of the sign &c., by means of a projector producing a definite beam and an assemblage of variously-tilted mirrors occupying an inclined cross section of the beam.
1930 Patent on improvements in or relating to modes of and means for fixing the position of one body in relation to another body, especially relating to mirrors
1930 produced the Savage Sky Projector.
1936 Patent relating to improvements in search lights; by rapidly scanning a large area, the beam from a searchlight is traversed to and fro to different extents and is spread or diverged linearly proportionally to the extent of the traversing movement.
1937 Formation of Savage and Parsons with a number of technical companies; the company manufactured and operated searchlights and projection apparatus.
1939 Managing director of engine firm[4]
1945 Died in Elstree[5]
1946 Tribute paid at AGM of A. Reyrolle and Co to Major Savage, founder of Savage and Parsons, also its chairman and managing director, who had died in 1945.