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  • Michael Walsh on Old Dowty factory in Station Street, Tewkesbury

    15/05/2022
    Does anyone remember Peggy Drinkwater who worked for Dowty in Tewkesbury in the late 1940s and early 1950s? She married...

  • John de Lacey on Dowty Wolleng Pty Ltd – Australia

    09/05/2022
    I started work there in 1988. Finished up just after Joy bought the group.

  • Mark Ellis on Dowty Marine – Turbo-Jet Units

    26/04/2022
    The Stalwart is one of the very early prototypes, and would have been in the early sixties. After the initial...

  • (Geoffrey) John Hall on Dowty in a village called Atworth

    15/04/2022
    Since my previous article I have made contact with Malcolm Bonham Lovett who was apprenticed with me as was Roy...

  • Linda Parker on Dowty Electrics – Ashchurch Fire 1969

    08/04/2022
    We lived in Tewkesbury and I remember seeing the flames, smoke and glow from our bedroom window. My dad worked...

  • Kevin Taylor on Railway Wagon Buffer Test Facility – Ashchurch

    07/04/2022
    Worked on the Railway test site from 1978 up to 1988, worked with Nigel Berry, Pete Raine, Nigel Cottell, John...

  • Pauline Reah on Dowty Group (General)

    15/03/2022
    My grandfather Horace Mansell was managing director of Coventry Precision up to about 1959? when he died, still working full...

  • Murray Sager on Dowprint Seals, Gaskets and Sealing Circuitry

    18/01/2022
    I worked briefly in the shop making gaskets for steam irons. A peaceful little place near to where railway nuts...

  • PaulP on Boulton Paul – People

    13/01/2022
    Hi, i was an apprentice between 1975 - 80, best times of my life. Do you have any photos of...

  • Harvey Cullis on Dowty Days Remembered

    31/12/2021
    Brilliant, truly brilliant.

  • Frank whymark on Dowty Electronics – Gresham Lion Technology

    31/12/2021
    To Chris Speedy: I would like to send a personal message to. Dr Stanley Baker. And wondered if you can...

  • Dawn E Lavin on Boulton Paul – Apprentices

    28/12/2021
    I think my Dad Chris Blower is on '62/63' apprenticeship photograph He started at the age of 16 so would...

  • Jo McAulay on Dowty Inter-Departmental Sports Teams

    22/12/2021
    DFS Machine Shop cricket final 1979 L-R back row John Compton; Tim Richards; Roger Ralph; ?; ?; ?; Colin Smith...

  • Jo McAulay on Dowty Inter-Departmental Sports Teams

    22/12/2021
    Sports photograph John herring; Dennis Langley and the missing name is Jeff Baguley All were Fuel Systems, Arle Court

  • Sophie on Arle Court – History of the House

    12/12/2021
    Walter Butt the younger sold off the contents of Arle Court. There is a small piece in a local newspaper...

  • Teresa on Arle Court – History of the House

    27/11/2021
    I have a few objects from Arle Court. My Uncle Phil brought them to Canada. I was wondering if there...

  • Dene Thomas Edward Jones on The Hydraulic Pit Prop

    26/11/2021
    My father was Roof Control Officer at the Bargoed colliery back in the 1960's. His name was Kenneth Charles Jones...

  • Martin Westwood on Laboratory Testing

    26/11/2021
    Chevaline Polaris Boost Propulsion System. YouTube have a zoom video made by members of the British Interplanetary Society and this...

  • Jonathon on Dowty Electronics – Gresham Lion Technology

    26/11/2021
    My late father was John a Phillips, technical director of Dowty Maritime Defence Systems.

  • Brittany Free on Rotol Airscrews Blade Shop

    26/10/2021
    My father and grandfather worked at Rotol. I have originals of both of the above photos in original mattes. They...

  • Peter Gruender on Dowty Rotol

    20/10/2021
    You should also mention Flight Lieutenant Eric George Philmore DFC, Service Number 152245, aged 23, Rotol Test Pilot, Staverton. Killed...

  • Nina Ahdan on Dowty Electronics (Communications Division) – Greenford

    08/10/2021
    Would you like my mums story of when she worked at Dowty Greenford in 1970’s 1980’s ? She designed the...

  • Tony Green on Apprentice Prize Giving – Press Reports

    08/10/2021
    Does anyone have photos or comment for the year 1959 -1965 I won an apprentice of the year award in...

  • SUSAN ASHTON on Dowty Electronics – Gresham Lion Technology

    07/10/2021
    I have vivid memories that Jimmy Saville attended Christmas Parties when I was the child of a mother that worked...
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