Dowty Rotol Archives?

Pagen01

I presume you have seen these??

http://www.enginehistory.org/Propellers/Rotol/rotol.shtml

Second Link with some info???

http://www.skyfield.demon.co.uk/page.7.html

Truc

Pagen01

I presume you have seen these??

http://www.enginehistory.org/Propellers/Rotol/rotol.shtml

Second Link with some info???

http://www.skyfield.demon.co.uk/page.7.html

Truc

Depends on what you are researching.

I have been trying to research my early WW2 Rotol R5 propeller, and was in touch with a retired employee who is a part time archivist at the Cheltenham plant.

Thanks Dai, I’m looking into the post-war propeller development aspect, would it be possible to be put in touch with the chap you mention?

Depends on what you are researching.

I have been trying to research my early WW2 Rotol R5 propeller, and was in touch with a retired employee who is a part time archivist at the Cheltenham plant.

Thanks Dai, I’m looking into the post-war propeller development aspect, would it be possible to be put in touch with the chap you mention?

Rotol records

Depends on what you are researching.

I have been trying to research my early WW2 Rotol R5 propeller, and was in touch with a retired employee who is a part time archivist at the Cheltenham plant. I was told that there are no records of wartime Rotol propellers since a flood in the late 1960s destroyed the paper archive. Some of the drawings and records were saved, but the vast majority were lost.

The book ‘Rotol’ by Bruce Stait is an interesting read, but the author (a former Rotol employee) pass away some years ago. I have been in touch with his son, but essentially all of his father’s paperwork are now at the records office in Gloucester:

ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=((text)=’D8347′)

I have never been able to locate any details of the propeller blades, and only five drawings of the hub.

DAI

Thanks for that Dave, I will pursue those avenues.
James

It probably depends on what equipment you are looking for as the landing gear is Messier-Bugatti-Dowty now,and the prop/hydraulic side of things is GE Aviation. Various other parts of the organisation was sold off as well ie. Ultra Electrics and Dowty Seals.

Probably worth a try with both M-B-D and GE Aviation though.

Regards

Dave