James Mitchell Hewitt

James Mitchell Hewitt (1855-1918), managing director of the Saver Clutch Co, Inventor and designer

See Hewitt Engines

c1884 Married and had four children

1901 Living at 26 Portland Crescent, Chorlton upon Medlock: James Hewitt (age 45 born Scotland), Consulting Electrical Engineer- Employer. With his wife Isabella P. Hewitt (age 47 born Manchester) and their four children; Mary E. Hewitt (age 19 born Liverpool); Annie P. Hewitt (age 17 born Liverpool); Edith Hewitt (age 15 born Liverpool); and Margaret I. Hewitt (age 12 born Chester Newton on Hyde). One servant.

1909 Patent No. 15,908 dated 7th July 1909 for differential steering gear

1909 Patent No. 28,529 dated 31st December 1909 for friction variable gearing for motor vehicles

1911 Patent. Inventor Arthur James Drake and James Mitchell Hewitt. Original Assignee Saver Clutch Co 'a new driving device or power conveying means in the form of a variable speed gearing'.

1911 Living at Norwood, Cambridge Road, Hale, Cheshire: James Hewitt (age 55 born Glasgow), Consulting Electrical Engineer.

1918 February. Died. 'To-day the body was found the Midland Railway, near Matlock, of Mr. James Mitchell Hewitt, consulting engineer, of Hale. Cheshire. Deceased, who was about 60. had his possession & ticket from Manchester London. He apparently fell from an express last night.'

Probate to his widow Isabel Paxton Hewitt.

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