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Dowty Group was a leading British manufacturer of aircraft equipment.It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.The firm ceased operating as an individual entity following its acquisition by TI Group in 1992.
On 16 January 2007, Dowty Propellers became part of GE Aviation Systems through GE buying Smiths Group’s aerospace division. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On 5 February 2015, a fire at Dowty's Staverton facility caused severe damage to 80% of the factory building, destroying the main production line. [ 5 ]
The company can be traced to the establishment of a 50/50 joint venture in 1995 between France's Messier and the United Kingdom's Dowty Group, then owned by TI Group. Messier-Dowty was purchased outright from TI Group by the SNECMA group in 1998. The 2005 merger of SAGEM and SNECMA made Messier-Dowty part of the new Safran company. In May 2011 ...
In 1961 the company was acquired by Dowty Group and was renamed Dowty Boulton Paul Ltd and then Dowty Aerospace. Following the acquisition of Dowty Aerospace by TI Group in 1992, and the subsequent merger of Smiths Industries and the TI group in 2000, to form Smiths Group , the Wolverhampton factory site was sold again in May 2007 to GE ...
In 1931 he set up his own company in Cheltenham making aircraft equipment: for this purpose he leased a factory and bought Arle Court in Cheltenham. [1] Dowty invented the first internally sprung aircraft wheel (used on the Gloster Gladiator) [1] and by the time World War II had broken out the company was known as Dowty Aviation and was making the hydraulic systems in planes in Britain, Canada ...
TI Group bought Huron Products Industries (USA) in 1991, [15] and Dowty Group in 1992, [16] Reportedly, Dowty had been regarded by TI's chairman, Sir Christopher Lewinton, as his number-one target and had made substantial preparations towards its acquisition, although the bid was not regarded as being a hostile one despite Dowty's board ...
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During 1977, Ultra Electronics was bought by the Dowty Group and regained its independence via a management buyout in 1993. Into the twenty-first century, it has continued to be an active supplier to the aerospace sector; various companies, including Bombardier Aerospace and Airbus , have chosen to incorporate Ultra Electronics' noise reduction ...