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William John Brewer, C.E. of Jeffery and Brewer
c.1895 Designer of the Devil's Dyke Cableway
1897 Patent. 19,580. William John Brewer, civil engineer, of Pimlico, and John Edward Cooper, engineer, of Withernsea, Yorkshire, applied for a patent for "improvements in auto-motor vehicles or carriages".[1]
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