THE DOWTY GROUP The foundations of the Dowty Group were laid in 1931 when Sir George Dowty, then Mr G. H. Dowty, a draughtsman employed by the Gloster Aircraft Company, decided to start his own business with a handful of people in Cheltenham. The organisation which has its headq

by The Sphere Midlands Correspondent Jim Delafield, president of General Foods International, may be no great shakes as a cricketer, but at a Press conference in Birming ham the other day he hit one question for a six that may even land near Big Ben. He was congratulating Mr C.

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Right: Eric Tabarly, a French naval lieutenant, the winner of the single- handed transatlantic yacht race, sponsored by The Observer, seen on his arrival at New port, USA, 27 days after leaving Plymouth, England. His Dutch- built 44 ft. ketch Pen- Duick II (far right) was design

It has often happened to Britain to lead the world in solving some problem, to profit by it, and then to fall behind when others have followed her example with more modern methods. We start off one jump ahead and finish one jump behind. The classic case is the railway transport

The Mongolian People's Republic, to give its constitutional name to the territory known as Outer Mongolia, is virtually a colony of the Soviet Union in the Far East. Indeed it was in Mongolia in the years before the last war that the Soviet colonisation was begun under the guise

Wellclose Square in Stepney in the East End of London is a reminder that this was once a residential area of solid and sometimes stately homes for merchants from the City of London. Some of the buildings were begun in 1678 as part of the boom which followed the Great Fire in 166

BRIAN VESEY-FITZGERALD I am the proud possessor of a pair of waggon- wheels. Silly to be proud of that? Well, maybe. But how often do you see the old wooden farm-waggon with its iron-tyred wheels nowa days? I mean: in use? I have been trying to remember when I last saw one actua

British Railways introduced last week a new type of rolling stock on the Talisman express which runs between London and Edinburgh. The train (seen in the photograph on the right) is regarded as the prototype train of the future." It is composed of xp64 passenger coaches which ha