Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Dowty Group

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Feb 1962.

1954 Dowty Group was established as a holding company[1] to hold the shares in Dowty Equipment

1959 Rotol Airscrews was acquired and merged with Dowty Equipment to become Dowty Rotol

1960 Advert for Roofmaster fully mechanised hydraulic roof support by Dowty Mining Equipment of Ashchurch

1961 Boulton Paul Aircraft was acquired[2], which was renamed Dowty Boulton Paul.

1962 Subsidiaries included[3]:

Other products included Dowty Moog valves and Dowmatic Hydraulic Equipment

There were 700 young people under training.

1968 Higgins Boughton Industries and its principal subsidiary Mining Engineering Meco of Worcester were acquired[4].

1975 George Dowty died.

1992 Dowty Group was acquired by TI Group

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Wednesday, Apr 14, 1954
  2. The Times, 27 January 1961
  3. The Times, 5 September 1962
  4. The Times, 16 January 1968