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  • Messier Dowty - Landing Matters Magazine

    Messier Dowty - Landing Matters Magazine

    18/04/2019
    Copies of the Messier Dowty “Landing Matters” magazine issued to employees
  • Messier Dowty - Action Magazine

    Messier Dowty - Action Magazine

    18/04/2019
    Copies of the “Action” magazine have been removed from this website until further notice.
  • Messier Dowty - Safran News

    Messier Dowty - Safran News

    18/04/2019
    Copies of the “Safran News” magazine have been removed from this website until further notice.
  • Messier Dowty - One Team Magazine

    Messier Dowty - One Team Magazine

    18/04/2019
    Copies of the “One Team” magazine have been removed from this website until further notice.
  • Dowty Marine and Dowty Turbocraft - Remembered by Adrian Waddams

    Dowty Marine and Dowty Turbocraft - Remembered by Adrian Waddams

    15/04/2019
    My early love of boating as a boy was kindled by the Dowty Turbocraft, and I retain a great affection ...
  • Apprentice Annual Dinner - 1962 & 1963

    Apprentice Annual Dinner - 1962 & 1963

    12/04/2019
    Copies of the Dowty Apprentice Annual Dinner programmes and menu from 1962 and 1963 The attached Youtube song is by the ...
  • Dowty Rotol - Newspaper Clippings

    Dowty Rotol - Newspaper Clippings

    03/04/2019
    Copies of Dowty Rotol newspaper clippings that appeared in local and national papers between 1955-59
  • Dowty Boulton Paul - Site Plans

    Dowty Boulton Paul - Site Plans

    29/03/2019
    Copies of documents, showing Dowty Boulton Paul, Site Plans for Unit No.33B from around 1980 These documents were created by the ...
  • Dowty Rotol - Site Plans

    Dowty Rotol - Site Plans

    29/03/2019
    Copies of documents, showing Dowty Rotol (North and South Works), Site Plans for Unit Nos.26, 27, 54, and 104 from ...
  • Dowty Hydraulic Units - Site Plans

    Dowty Hydraulic Units - Site Plans

    29/03/2019
    Copies of documents, showing Dowty Hydraulic Units Site Plans of Unit Nos.4, 57, 89, from around 1980 These documents were created ...
  • Gloster Engineering (Cheltenham) - Site Plans

    Gloster Engineering (Cheltenham) - Site Plans

    28/03/2019
    Copies of documents, showing Gloster Engineering (Cheltenham) Unit No.43 Site Plans from around 1980 These documents were created by the Dowty ...
  • Dowty Seals - Site Plans

    Dowty Seals - Site Plans

    28/03/2019
    Copies of documents, showing Dowty Seals at Ashchurch, Milford Haven and Cheltenham, Unit Nos.9, 29, 37, 91 Site Plans from ...
  • Dowty Meco - Site Plans

    Dowty Meco - Site Plans

    28/03/2019
    Copies of documents, showing Dowty Meco at Worcester and Doncaster, Unit Nos.40, 40A, 47A, 48, 72, 73 Site Plans from ...
  • Dowty Mining Equipment - Site Plans

    Dowty Mining Equipment - Site Plans

    28/03/2019
    Copies of documents, showing Dowty Mining Equipment Unit Nos.2, 3, 7, 10 & 24 Site Plans from around 1980 These documents ...
  • Brockhampton Park - Site Plans

    Brockhampton Park - Site Plans

    28/03/2019
    Copies of documents, showing Brockhampton House and Deer Park Unit No. 12 Site Plans from around 1980 These documents were created ...
  • Innsworth Metals - Site Plans

    Innsworth Metals - Site Plans

    27/03/2019
    Copies of documents, showing Innsworth Metals Site Plans  of both the sites at Innsworth and Staverton from around 1980 These documents ...
  • Dowty Group Establishments -1980

    Dowty Group Establishments -1980

    27/03/2019
    Copies of documents, showing Dowty Group Establishment listings with their Unit Nos and Site Plans from around 1980. These documents were ...
  • Apprentice Prize Giving - Press Reports

    Apprentice Prize Giving - Press Reports

    25/03/2019
    Dowty Apprentices’ Prize Giving – November 1952 The third annual apprentices’ prize giving of Dowty Equipment, Ltd., took place at Arle ...
  • R H Bound - Technical Director

    R H Bound - Technical Director

    20/03/2019
    R H Bound F.R.Ae.S, F.S.E, M.I.M.E, A.I.M.A.E was a Technical Director of Dowty Equipment, he had considerable experience of aircraft ...
  • Dowty in WW2 - Newspaper Clippings

    Dowty in WW2 - Newspaper Clippings

    19/03/2019
    Copies of World War 2 Newspaper clippings about Dowty’s during the war – national and local newspapers, along with Aircraft ...
  • Hanover Air Show 1964

    Hanover Air Show 1964

    19/03/2019
    Photographs from the Hanover Air Show held in 1964, featruring the EWR VJ 101 experimental German jet fighter vertical takeoff/landing ...
  • Belly Geared Aircraft Concept

    Belly Geared Aircraft Concept

    19/03/2019
    Dowty Equipment drawing blueprint of a “Belly Geared Aircraft Concept” … never took off!
  • Weekly Staff - Clocking In/Out Machine

    Weekly Staff - Clocking In/Out Machine

    18/03/2019
    For the majority of Weekly Staff Employees, there was a requirement to clock “IN and OUT” when reporting to work ...
  • Gloster Engineering

    Gloster Engineering

    18/03/2019
    Gloster Engineering (Cheltenham) was located in St Pauls Street North, Cheltenham. In 1967 it was acquired by the Dowty Group, then ...
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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...
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