Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Dowsett Holdings

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Civil engineering contractors, prestressed and precast concrete manufacturers, shipbuilders and engineers.

c.1946 Dowsett-Mackay Organisation was incorporated as a public company - Dowsett Holdings[1]

1957 11th AGM. The main areas of the business that were growing were:

New products included windpower, concentration of heavy minerals, expanding uses of prestressed concrete, trawlers.

1962 Sold Dow-Mac (Products) to Norcros

1976 Concrete Ltd of Leeds acquired Dowsett Engineering Construction and subsequently Dowsett Piling and Foundations[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Dec 19, 1957
  2. The Times, Dec 16, 1976