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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 ...
Job Advertisements
19/01/2019
Dowty Equipment job advertisements for skilled aircraft design engineers that appeared in the press during the 1950’s.
Dowty Wins Vectored Thrust Contract - 1986
18/01/2019
Press Release FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 5 April 1986 Dowty Boulton Paul is to supply the fly-by-wire (FBW) Harrier tail-plane actuation for BAe ...
Hanover Aeronautical Show - 1962
18/01/2019
Press Release FLIGHT International, 26 April 1962 Dowty Group Ltd Europe’s largest manufacturer of aircraft equipment, Dowty Group Ltd will be ...
Aircraft Industries Corporation Ltd - 1935
18/01/2019
Press Release: FLIGHT. SEPTEMBER 19, 1935 Aircraft Industries Corporation Ltd Registered as a private company on September 5, with a nominal capital ...
Aeritalia G.222
18/01/2019
Did you know? That Dowty Boulton Paul produced the power control units for the Aeritalia G.222; including the control valve, lift ...
Westland Helicopters WG.34 Helicopter
17/01/2019
Did you know? That in December 1979 Dowty was chosen by Westland Helicopters to design and develop the hydraulic system for ...
Aircraft Components Catalogue
17/01/2019
Did you know? That in 1936, Dowty published a catalogue, covering the whole range of Dowty equipment, produced by Aircraft Components, ...
Hawker Siddeley Harrier
17/01/2019
Did you know? That in Sept 1971, Dowty Rotol received an order worth more than £1,000,000 for aviation equipment for the ...
Handley Page Hampden
17/01/2019
Did you know? That in May 1939, it was only to be expected that much of the specialised hydraulic equipment in ...
Dowty's Nuclear Establishment
17/01/2019
Flight Press Release April 1956 The two photographs below shows the imposing headquarters of Dowty Nucleonics, Ltd., at Brockhampton Park, Andoversford, ...
Dowty opens new factory at Hal Far
17/01/2019
Thursday, May 30, 2002, 00:00 by Fiona Galea Debono Dowty Automotive (Malta) Ltd yesterday inaugurated a new factory, Business Brakes Unit, ...
Ram Air Turbine
17/01/2019
This is the mock up for the Dowty Rotol Ram Air Turbine (RAT) for the Tornado F3 Air Defence Variant ...
Arle Court - Christmas Sledge
16/01/2019
Photographs of the Arle Court Christmas Sledge!
Jet Engine Testing
16/01/2019
Photograph of Jet Engine being prepared for testing
Dowty Boulton Paul - Products
16/01/2019
Photographs of products that were designed and manufactured by DBP Wolverhampton
Dowty and Longwall Mining
16/01/2019
Dowty Mining Equipment manufactured and supplied thousands of power roof supports and other mining equipment to the Longwall Mining process ...
Dowty Marine - Turbo-Jet Units
16/01/2019
Photographs of Dowty Marine Turbo-Jets
Retractable Railway Buffer
16/01/2019
Dowty Hydraulic Units Prototype of an “end of siding” retractable railway buffer undergoing factory tests after design and manufacture and prior ...
Sister Rees Retires - March 1972
14/01/2019
Dowty News press clipping from 1972
Sir George Dowty Legacy - Local Communities
11/01/2019
Sir George Dowty not only left his mark on the Aerospace, Mining and Industrial businesses with his innovative products, his ...
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Robert Almond
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Aeritalia G.222
19/01/2019
Dowty Rotol provided the engine driven gearboxes
By Daniel Kilmurray 07/01/2019
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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
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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
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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.
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