John Wilmott Marshall
John Wilmott Marshall (1905- ), presumably of Marshall, Drew and Co
1905 January: Born in Simla, Bengal, India, son of John Hubert Marshall, archaeologist, and his wife Florence Elsie[1]
1911 Florence Ellen Marshall 37, Marie Antionette Marshall 58, John Wilmott Marshall 5, Margaret Annie Marshall 3 were visitors in Torquay
1915-21 Educated at Worthing prep school and Haileybury College
1921 Travelled to India, a school boy[2]
1925-27 Attended Cambridge University studying engineering; graduated B.A. Eng.
Member of C. U. A. C. where he successfully competed on Norton motorcycles[3]
1926 Vacation work at A. Ransome and Co, tool room practice
1927-8 Working at H. R. Ricardo and Co, Shoreham, on I.C. engine research and testing
1928-31 Assistant transportation officer, Bengal-Nagpur Railway
1931-2 With Amherst Villiers Airmotors, West London, on factory design, aero-engine test plant and machine tools.
1932 Working as an internal combustion engineer, at Pembridge Crescent, London, on design, manufacture and marketing a range of superchargers and high speed i.c. engines.
1932 Proposed for membership of I Mech E but the committee did not put forward a motion for membership.
1933 Patent on improvements in superchargers for use with internal combustion engines.
1939 Living in Pembridge Crescent, London, Setter & Cam Designer, B & S Automatics[4]
1945 Married Daphne Eleanor Black in Lunesdale[5]
1951 An industrial consultant when he arrived in London from Beira with Daphne Eleanor Marshall, 32[6]
1954-66 Several patents on rotary machines, compressors, pumps and engines (of Weybridge and later of Royston).
See Also
Sources of Information
- Mechanical Engineer records