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1936 Public company - manufacturer and dealer in aeroplanes and motor vehicles<ref>The Times (London, England), Tuesday, May 05, 1936</ref>, formed by [[Lanchester Motor Co|Lanchester Motors]] with [[Close Brothers]] to manufacture components for aircraft.  Mr [[Frederic Wyndham Freke Hewitt|Wyndham Hewitt]] was previously assistant chief engineer of [[Imperial Airways]]<ref>The Times, May 11, 1936</ref>
1936 Public company - manufacturer and dealer in aeroplanes and motor vehicles<ref>The Times (London, England), Tuesday, May 05, 1936</ref>, formed by [[Lanchester Motor Co|Lanchester Motors]] with [[Close Brothers]] to manufacture components for aircraft.  Mr [[Frederic Wyndham Freke Hewitt|Wyndham Hewitt]] was previously assistant chief engineer of [[Imperial Airways]] (sic)<ref>The Times, May 11, 1936</ref>


1937 Engineers.
1937 Engineers.

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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
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