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  • Keith Grewcock on Herman Engineering Products

    25/05/2020
    Some memories here. My father worked at Herman Engineering until made redundant in '82 I think. He loved it there,...

  • Richard Edwards on Dowty Klockner – Organisation Chart

    23/05/2020
    Hi Roger Kent... You won't know me but I am sort of an adopted son of John and Vida. She...

  • Mr G. Hindson on Dowty Air Crash – Wolverhampton

    12/05/2020
    I remember, watching it, I was 10 years old, I was in the rear garden, with my brother, when it...

  • Steve Parker on No 1 Assembly Shop

    06/05/2020
    The person in the photographs near the top of the page (2 to 5) is Martin Clark, who went on...

  • John Redfern on Dowty Klockner – Organisation Chart

    04/05/2020
    Many thanks for the update Roger... have now reassigned post to Dowty Seals & Dowty Malta...

  • Roger Kent on Dowty Klockner – Organisation Chart

    04/05/2020
    This company was in fact associated with Dowty Seals and Dowty Malta, and not Dowty Mining.

  • Pete Nicholls on Dowty Controls – In Control of Technology

    30/04/2020
    So funny, seeing Phil Heredge sitting there at the test equipment, 30 years ago. Shame they didn't capture me. Probably...

  • John Redfern on Unknown Sites & Locations

    30/04/2020
    Thanks for updates Jeremy much appreciated, photos now updated

  • Jeremy Sykes on Unknown Sites & Locations

    29/04/2020
    The top left photo is Palmer Chenard, Somersworth, New Hampshire probably in around 1990, before Dowty bought it. The 4...

  • Jo McAulay on Dowty Fuel Systems – People

    27/04/2020
    Photo 1989, 25 year service of David Foster. No 14 - seated is Peter Robson. He worked in the machine...

  • Mrs Jo McAulay on Dowty Fuel Systems – Synopsis

    26/04/2020
    The receptionist in photo was aged 18, Johannah Rainey. She transferred to the machine shop to become secretary to Winston...

  • John Redfern on Brockhampton Park – Site Plans

    12/04/2020
    Thank you for your comments Peter, we would love to hear any stories that you have from your time at...

  • Peter Whitaker on Brockhampton Park – Site Plans

    12/04/2020
    This has brought back some memories. I was born in Brockhampton park house in 1951 when it was a country...

  • 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...
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  • Dowty Rotol Re-Union 1991

    13/05/2020
    Photos by kind permission of Phil Hunt I was looking for some photographs at my Dad’s (John Hunt) and came across ...

  • Dowty Horticultural Shows

    05/05/2020
    Picture taken at Dowty Ashchurch Horticultural Show. The men in the middle are Stuart Eskins to the left and Alan Manton ...

  • Dowty’s Touch Screen Communications Control System

    30/04/2020
    Dowty’s Touch Screen Communications Control System for the Leicestershire Constabulary. History In 1988 the Leicestershire Constabulary set up a Project Team consisting ...

  • Delving into Dowty - 10 May 2019

    20/04/2020
    Delving into Dowty – Gloucestershire Heritage Hub 10 May 2019
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