Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Wyndham Hewitt

From Graces Guide

of Lagonda Works, Staines

Manufacturers and suppliers in Great Britain.

1936 Public company - manufacturer and dealer in aeroplanes and motor vehicles[1], formed by Lanchester Motors with Close Brothers to manufacture components for aircraft. Mr Wyndham Hewitt was previously assistant chief engineer of Imperial Airways (sic)[2]

1937 Engineers.

1939 US Patent on "Hydraulic governor" by the company and Herbert Arthur Garrett; in same year a German patent of the same title by Garrett and Bryce Fuel Injection Ltd and a British patent by Garrett and Bryce Ltd on "Improvements in and relating to hydraulic governors".

1940 "Wyndham Hewitt, Ltd, with which is associated, Lagonda Motors, has now formed a subsidiary company, Bryce Fuel Injection, Ltd., with headquarters at the Lagonda Works, at Staines."[3]

1944 Stanley Frank Ivermee, Esq., Experimental Engineer, Wyndham Hewitt Limited was awarded an OBE[4]

1954 Removed from the register of companies[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, May 05, 1936
  2. The Times, May 11, 1936
  3. Commercial Motor 18th May 1940
  4. London Gazette 31 December 1943
  5. London Gazette 10 September 1954