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  • Robert Almond on Aeritalia G.222

    19/01/2019
    Dowty Rotol provided the engine driven gearboxes

  • By Daniel Kilmurray 07/01/2019 on New Mendip Engineering – People

    07/01/2019
    List of names are as follows: Back row standing L to R: Charlie Ward, Harold Vines, Fred Abrahams, Dennis Mortimer,...

  • Merv Jacques on Old Dowty factory in Station Street, Tewkesbury

    23/12/2018
    I worked here after completing my apprenticeship before they moved the business into the old apprenticeship section of Dowty Hydraulice...

  • Trevor Miles on Old Dowty factory in Station Street, Tewkesbury

    20/12/2018
    I worked there as an apprentice, I was there with Dowty hydraulics repair shop. Probably 1978.

  • RE on Dowty Fuel Systems – People

    20/12/2018
    Dowty Fuels Systems photo: 1989 to celebrate David Foster. No 9, standing but not named Is: Geoff Todd, worked with...

  • John Redfern on Dowty in a village called Atworth

    20/12/2018
    Sally, Many thanks for your comments. Your father must be congratulated for writing such a brilliant article, which captured the...

  • SALLY TANNER on Dowty in a village called Atworth

    20/12/2018
    My dad who wrote this paper, primarily for the Atworth history group, had just scanned through it again and brought...

  • John Redfern on New Mendip Engineering – People

    19/12/2018
    Many thanks for your message. As an ex. Mendip Apprentice myself, it would be great if Danny could send us...

  • Danny Kilmurray on New Mendip Engineering – People

    18/12/2018
    Danny says he knows every person on this photo bar a couple.Da

  • John Herring on VIP Visit – British Medical Association

    05/12/2018
    Unless there was more than one of these Local BMA branch visits, I was there on that occasion, standing in...

  • Dave Stick on Jet Test Cell at Staverton

    30/11/2018
    During the late 50s and early 60s I spent much time at the test cell. I was initially involved with...

  • John Redfern on Arle Court – Site Photos

    30/11/2018
    Hello David Firstly, many thanks for sharing your photos with the Dowty Heritage Website, I am sure that these will...

  • Dave Stick on Arle Court – Site Photos

    30/11/2018
    The first photo above must have been taken post 1962 as I left that year and as I recall the...

  • Ally McConnell on Dowty Seals – People

    15/11/2018
    Thanks Suzanne, and congratulations on your win! If you have any photos please do consider uploading them to this site,...

  • Suzanne Stead on Dowty Seals – People

    15/11/2018
    I won the national Miss Beautiful Eyes 1978 , it was Dowty’s first time entering this eye safety competition to...

  • David Kingston on Dowty Fuel Systems – Synopsis

    14/11/2018
    I have fond recollections when, back in the '80s, I worked with Tony Peasley, Terry Srawford and other the test...

  • John Redfern on New Mendip Engineering Apprentice Indentures

    12/11/2018
    Thank you David for your comments, as an ex. Mendip Apprentice myself I agree whole heartedly agree with all you...

  • David Milsom on New Mendip Engineering Apprentice Indentures

    11/11/2018
    This all brings back so many memories. I started at New Mendip in September 1967. Signing up for a five...

  • Bob Brown on Dowty Railway Retarder

    24/09/2018
    I was seconded to the DHU agents Telkor in 1978 to manufacture assemble and install the retarder and booster system...

  • Peter Higgins on Dowty Mining Equipment – Publications

    22/09/2018
    John, Firstly, thanks for the good work you are doing with these Dowty sites and groups. Of course you may...

  • John Redfern on Dowty Mining Equipment – Publications

    22/09/2018
    Hi Peter... many thanks for sharing that information... would you have any objection if I used your comments in a...

  • John Redfern on Video Clip of Peter Kearney being interviewed by Sue Jay

    22/09/2018
    Hi Anne... many thanks for your kind comments, we are glad that you like our website, please keep looking, as...

  • Peter Higgins on Dowty Mining Equipment – Publications

    22/09/2018
    Hi, You may be interested to learn that the black "Dowty Wolleng" sticker caused some consternation when it was produced,...

  • Anne Denise Houghton on Video Clip of Peter Kearney being interviewed by Sue Jay

    22/09/2018
    Amazing video, I knew Peter in his later years as he was a good friend of my Dad and my...
Latest pages

  • Hot Meals for 8d. per head!

    21/01/2019
    Photograph of Dowty Equipment employees outside the canteen where hot meals were provided for 8d. per head in March 1940  

  • Silver Jubilee Commemorative Book 1931 - 1956

    21/01/2019
    Photographs from the Silver Jubilee Commemorative Book 1931 – 1956

  • Equipment Labels

    21/01/2019
    Photographs of Dowty Rotol Equipment Labels, these were affixed to ancillary gearboxes and a mixture of hydraulic unit and landing ...

  • Apprenticeship Prizegiving - 1975

    20/01/2019
    Photograph of Gary Sutton receiving his apprentice prize from Raymond Baxter, BBC Television Presenter (Tomorrows World) at the Dowty Group ...
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