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Hugh Reeves

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and the Welbum propulsion system. This was made clear in a document that was produced at the end of the war to ensure that the correct people were credited for their inventions.
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and the sleeve gun (similar to the Welrod, though single shot and intended to be concealed up a sleeve), as well as designing the
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fitted with a Sapphire engine, he was suddenly drawn into the intake of the silencer and was killed.
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Reeves was involved in a project to reduce noise in jet engines. While carrying out tests at
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During World War II Major Reeves was attached to Station IX, where he invented both the
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Reeves continued inventing after the war with patents for
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Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in England
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Index

Station IX
SOE
World War II

suppressed
Sten gun
Imperial War Museum
London

Popular Science
Seaford
Sussex
prep school
West Downs School
Winchester
St Cyprian's School
Eastbourne
Harrow
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Welrod
Motorised Submersible Canoe
Sten gun
Welgun
RAF Bitteswell
Hawker Hunter F.5
"Improvements in Diving Equipment"
the original
Wheel holding chocks in Aircraft
"MISINFORMATION"
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