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The history of Gloucestershire’s global engineering group

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Delving into Dowty: photos, memories and archives

This website records the history of the Dowty Group. Here you can browse through our collection of historical material, which includes photos, old documents and the memories of employees – past and present. Find out more about us or get in touch.

Please note that we do NOT sell aircraft parts through this site. If your query is relating to a quotation for a part or repair work, please email customerservices@dowty.com

If you have Facebook and aren’t part of the Facebook group “Dowty Group of Companies” you can join by clicking this link. Here you can see various discussions about the company and subsidiary companies. We will be putting a lot of the photos from there onto this website too, if you don’t have Facebook.

Explore life at Dowty
  • Dowty Taurodyne

    Dowty Taurodyne

  • Events

    Events

  • How to contribute to Dowty Heritage

    How to contribute to Dowty Heritage

  • Introducing the Dowty project

    Introducing the Dowty project

Highlights
  • Introducing the Dowty project

    Introducing the Dowty project

    The project is part of a Heritage Lottery Funded project to transform Gloucestershire Archives into the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, along ...
  • Mary Sage

    Mary Sage

    Mary was born in 1916 and so was 102 years old when we interviewed her. She worked at Dowty during the ...
  • Oral histories

    Oral histories

    As part of the Dowty Heritage project, we are seeking to collect lots of oral history recordings from ex-members of ...
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Latest comments
  • A short history of the Dowty IT Division

    A short history of the Dowty Information Technology Division (successor to the Dowty Electronics Division) In 1984 Dowty Electronics Division acquired ...
  • Memories of Steffen Justus

    My name is Steffen Justus from Germany. By chance I came across the “Dowty Heritage” website of your company and would ...
  • Memories of Eonis Vorvis

    My name is Eonis Vorvis and I was an employee of Dowty Canada in Ajax from 1952 until 1957, first ...
All new pages
  • John G Kidd on Dowty Motorcycle Oleo Shock Absorbers

    09/08/2022
    Amazing to find the forks, on my just bought Velocette 248cc 1936 on your website. The clamps at the bottom...
  • David Harris on All Hydraulic ROLF

    01/08/2022
    I worked extensively on R.O.L.F at Westoe Colliery, it was used on faces in the South Brassthill seam, I learned...
  • Martin O’Neill on Dowty Jet Turbocraft – Press Release

    18/07/2022
    Anybody interested in a Dowty Turbo Craft ? Had the jet replaced with an out drive by Dowty for use...
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