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  • Photos of Dowty Rotol Buildings

    Photos of Dowty Rotol Buildings

    29/08/2018
    Selection of photographs showing the Dowty Rotol site at Staverton, Gloucester. The iconic white building was not always white!  
  • Video of the Dowty Turbocraft

    Video of the Dowty Turbocraft

    29/08/2018
    The 1959 Dowty Turbocraft is shown here after restoration. It was restored at East Belfast Yacht Club by Gary McCausland.
  • Sir George Dowty's Notebook

    Sir George Dowty's Notebook

    29/08/2018
    The archive at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub includes an early notebook belonging to Sir George Dowty. This page shows overhead expenses for ...
  • Dowty Directors' Attendance Book, 1942

    Dowty Directors' Attendance Book, 1942

    29/08/2018
    This book shows signatures of attendance at board meetings of directors of the Dowty Group early in its life, in ...
  • How to contribute to Dowty Heritage

    How to contribute to Dowty Heritage

    24/08/2018
    This website allows you to contribute to the preserved Dowty memories by sharing photographs, videos stories. Anyone can do this. At ...
  • Video Clip of Peter Kearney being interviewed by Sue Jay

    Video Clip of Peter Kearney being interviewed by Sue Jay

    22/08/2018
    This is a great documentary featuring a lorry driver who worked for Dowty. Watch this documentary about the life of a ...
  • The History of Dowty Talk - 6th September 2018

    The History of Dowty Talk - 6th September 2018

    20/08/2018
    The first major event taking place following the start of the Dowty cataloguing project in April will be on the 6th September 2018, from 10-12.
  • Introducing the Dowty project

    Introducing the Dowty project

    18/07/2018
    The project is part of a Heritage Lottery Funded project to transform Gloucestershire Archives into the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, along ...
  • Dowty Group Global Growth

    Dowty Group Global Growth

    18/07/2018
    The Dowty Group was founded in 1931 when George Dowty left the Gloster Aircraft Company to develop a new internally-sprung ...
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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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