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  • Aircraft with Dowty Equipment

    Aircraft with Dowty Equipment

    13/03/2019
    Aircraft that I believe have Dowty equipment which I found in my attic. They were given to me by my ...
  • Dowty Air Crash - Wolverhampton

    Dowty Air Crash - Wolverhampton

    08/03/2019
    On 9th April 1970 at 09:02 hrs, an aircraft owned by Dowty Group Services, a Dove HS 104, Series 8, ...
  • Variety of Aircraft Photos

    Variety of Aircraft Photos

    08/03/2019
    Photographs of a variety of aircraft that were constructed with Dowty components, such undercarriage, propellers, fuel systems and flight controls.  
  • Armed Services - Undercarriage Drop Test Facility

    Armed Services - Undercarriage Drop Test Facility

    07/03/2019
    Photographs of Armed Services personnel (Ex British POW’s) at Dowty Equipment, Arle Court – Undercarriage Drop Test Facility We believe this ...
  • VIP Visits - King George VI & Queen

    VIP Visits - King George VI & Queen

    07/03/2019
    Photographs of VIP visits by King George VI and The Queen Throughout the war, the King and Queen provided morale-boosting visits ...
  • VIP Visit - Rt Hon George Strauss MP

    VIP Visit - Rt Hon George Strauss MP

    07/03/2019
    Photograph of a VIP visit by Rt Hon George Strauss MP, Government Minister of Suppy to Dowty Equipment, Arle Court Rt ...
  • VIP Visit - Rt Hon Sir Stafford Cripps MP

    VIP Visit - Rt Hon Sir Stafford Cripps MP

    07/03/2019
    Photograph of a VIP visit to Dowty Equipment, Arle Court by Rt Hon Sir Stafford Cripps MP, Minister of Aircraft ...
  • VIP Visit - Rt Hon Reginald Maudling MP

    VIP Visit - Rt Hon Reginald Maudling MP

    07/03/2019
    Photograph of a VIP visit by Rt Hon Reginald Mauldling MP with Sir George Dowty and Pat Symthe Reginald Maudling was ...
  • VIP Visit - Lord Robens

    VIP Visit - Lord Robens

    07/03/2019
    Photographs of a VIP visit by Lord Robens, Chairman National Coal Board; Sir George Dowty; Mr Murray Garmmar, Purchasing Director ...
  • VIP Visit - Rt Hon Douglas Jay MP

    VIP Visit - Rt Hon Douglas Jay MP

    07/03/2019
    Photograph of the visit by Government Minister Rt Hon Douglas Jay MP for the official opening of Dowty Seals Milford ...
  • VIP Visit - Rt Hon John Stonehouse MP

    VIP Visit - Rt Hon John Stonehouse MP

    07/03/2019
    Photographs of a VIP visit by Rt Hon John Stonehouse MP Minister of State for Technolgy in 1967 Stonehouse is remembered ...
  • VIP Visit - HRH Duke of Kent

    VIP Visit - HRH Duke of Kent

    07/03/2019
    Photographs of a VIP visit by HRH Duke of Kent to a Dowty Mining Equipment display stand at a Council ...
  • Sir George Dowty - Visit to Malta

    Sir George Dowty - Visit to Malta

    06/03/2019
    Photograph of Sir George Dowty on a visit to Malta
  • Sir George Dowty and Apprentices

    Sir George Dowty and Apprentices

    06/03/2019
    Photograph of Sir George Dowty and Apprentices with a model of a Turbocraft boat
  • VIP Visit - Rt Hon W S Morrison MP

    VIP Visit - Rt Hon W S Morrison MP

    06/03/2019
    Photograph of the VIP visit for opening of the Aschurch Factory 1956 by Goverment Minister Rt Hon W S Morrison ...
  • VIP Visit - RT Hon Jo Grimmond MP

    VIP Visit - RT Hon Jo Grimmond MP

    06/03/2019
    Photograph of the VIP visit by Rt Hon Jo Grimmond MP, visiting the Dowty Hydraulic Units Taurodyne Demostrator Joseph Grimond, Baron ...
  • VIP Visit - Rt Hon Douglas Jay MP

    VIP Visit - Rt Hon Douglas Jay MP

    06/03/2019
    Photograph of the VIP visit to Dowty Fuel Systems by  Government Minister Rt Hon Douglas Jay President of the Board of ...
  • VIP Visit - Rt Hon Tony Benn MP

    VIP Visit - Rt Hon Tony Benn MP

    06/03/2019
    Photographs of VIP Visit by Rt Hon Tony Benn MP Government Minister of State for Technology/ Rt Hon Tony Benn MP ...
  • VIP Visit - Rt Hon Michael Heseltine MP

    VIP Visit - Rt Hon Michael Heseltine MP

    06/03/2019
    Photographs of a VIP visit by Government Rt Hon Michael Heseltine MP who had been promoted to be Minister for ...
  • Sir George H Dowty - Photos

    Sir George H Dowty - Photos

    06/03/2019
    Photogaphs of Sir George H Dowty
  • Toys for the NSPCC

    Toys for the NSPCC

    06/03/2019
    Photographs below show a presentation of toys to the NSPCC by Dowty employees The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty ...
  • Dowty Seals - Products

    Dowty Seals - Products

    06/03/2019
    Photographs showing some of the products that were designed and manufactured by Dowty Seals across the globe
  • Aircraft Components - People

    Aircraft Components - People

    06/03/2019
    Photographs of the people who used to work at Aircraft Components Martin Robins writes, that there were 40 Dowty Pioneers…. To qualify ...
  • Arle Court Visit by Leslie Caron

    Arle Court Visit by Leslie Caron

    06/03/2019
    Photographs show a rare family photograph taken at Arle Court House, of Sir George and Lady Dowty with their daughter ...
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  • Michael Sillitoe on Dowty Rotol

    31/05/2022
    A very nice memorial to our friends and workmates. A few more names to the list. Rodney Smith Experimental M/C...
  • 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...
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