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  • Bruce Money on Ultra Electronics Controls Ltd – Flightdeck Warning System

    31/03/2020
    Hi, some nostalgia! I worked at Mansfield Road Acton in the 80's, when Tony Thatcher was Managing Director and Roy...

  • Elizabeth Reay on Secretarial Training School

    28/03/2020
    I am on this final page - one of the Secretarial Trainees - Elizabeth Warriner - can't believe I looked...

  • Alcwyn Elliott on Linepans for Longwall Face Conveyors

    23/03/2020
    The first photograph of the AFC pan has the Roll Rack chainless haulage system made by Anderson Boyes for their...

  • Ian Collis on Donald Campbell and the Dowty Connection

    22/03/2020
    Sadly he was never made a "Sir"

  • John Redfern on Dowty Seals/Mining – Post Closure Site Development

    20/03/2020
    Thank you for your comments. I think you will find that the first photo is actually what was left of...

  • Richard Keightley on Dowty Seals/Mining – Post Closure Site Development

    18/03/2020
    These are all of Dowty Mining, not Dowty Seals

  • John Redfern on Dowty Mining Equipment – Products

    16/03/2020
    Have you seen this about the Power Pack copy and paste link. https://www.dowtyheritage.org.uk/content/dowty-group/mining/hydraulic-power-pack-unit

  • Martin Westwood. on Dowty Boulton Paul – Apprentice Prize-Giving

    13/03/2020
    The invitation and award was for a prize giving held at Cheltenham Town Hall. A Dowty Group Prize. The photographs...

  • Alcwyn Elliott on Dowty Mining Equipment – Products

    12/03/2020
    fantastic history of development , might add dates to the individual photographs. Do you have the specifications or write ups...

  • David Anscombe on Reynolds Rings & Casings – Turbine Casing Rings

    09/03/2020
    Hi, Please note that the brand was Reynolds Rings & Casings, not CASTINGS.

  • Ian M Kendrick on Boulton Paul – People

    05/03/2020
    The photo John Ware and the Machine Shop Guys. I think this is George Russell's retirement presentation. George was a...

  • Terry Strawford on Jet Test Cell at Staverton

    04/03/2020
    The two people in the Control Room photos are Ian (Jack) Stephen & George Clements. We never tested an Olympus...

  • Ian M Kendrick on Boulton Paul – People

    04/03/2020
    The photo below the 1962 Apprentices: I believe we are looking at the presentation of 50 years service to Albert...

  • John Redfern on Manufacturing Capability

    04/03/2020
    Thank you Ian for your comments, I have now included your fathers name on the photo.

  • Ian Kendrick on Manufacturing Capability

    04/03/2020
    The man in the Quality Control photograph is my father, Brian Kendrick. He worked at Dowty Boulton Paul from 1962...

  • John Bentley on Boulton Paul – People

    21/02/2020
    I was in the stress office at this time, although not in this picture. I can name all those in...

  • Clive Hodson on Dowty Electronics – Gresham Lion Technology

    14/02/2020
    I was told when I worked at the Twickenham Road site from 1975 to 1985 that the brick faced building...

  • John Redfern on Boulton Paul – Apprentices

    14/02/2020
    Thanks Robert.... I have posted your enquiry to the Facebook Group too...called Dowty Group of Companies...

  • Robert Walker ( Titch ) on Boulton Paul – Apprentices

    13/02/2020
    Photo 62/63 have been trying to trace Melvyn Milner stocky with red hair . We played football for BP

  • Mike Buckle on CUMM 77 Exhibition – Birmingham 1977

    03/02/2020
    Tony Abbey behind Mike Bradford

  • John Redfern on Contact us

    27/01/2020
    Hi Ian... thanks for contacting us but unfortunately I am not sure that we can help, I am assuming it...

  • Ian harper on Contact us

    26/01/2020
    Hi do you have in your archives details of which Dowty pumps was fitted to Martin Markham mini garden tractors...

  • John Redfern on Dowty Mining Equipment – The Sell Off

    08/01/2020
    Thank you for your comment David

  • David Carpenter on Dowty Mining Equipment – The Sell Off

    08/01/2020
    Dowty Mining Equipment was sold as part of the Dowty Group Mining Division to a management buyout led by Adrian...
Latest pages

  • Memories of a Happy 5-Years!

    03/04/2020
    Steve Paddock shares his memories from working at Dowty “I’m Steve Paddock and I spent several happy years working for Dowty ...

  • Dowty Meco - Products

    11/03/2020
    Photographs of some of the products manufactured by Dowty Meco at Worcester

  • Apprentice Training Schools

    11/03/2020
    The majority, if not all Dowty sites had their own Apprentice Training Schools. This is where all Apprentices usually spent their ...

  • Ashchurch Sports & Social Club

    11/03/2020
    Photograph of the Ashchurch Sports & Social Club
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