Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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5 October 2010
11:2073801#1
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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5 October 2010
11:5573802#2
Great picture`s there of Dover Engineering works, but also the surrounding area`s. I`m sure Vic would be interested in seeing this lot. Not much material seems to have come on the forum regarding this important Dover Industry of years ago.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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5 October 2010
13:1073812#3
I have a six inch ruler from the Dover Engineering Works. Shown here against a photo I took of my matchbook holder from S.S. "Montrose" for my Western Entrance Blockships collection on fotopic.
http://shipsintheportofdover.fotopic.net/c1193631.html
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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5 October 2010
13:1773814#4
any date for that ruler ed, i note that the std code was still 0304 and that there was not a fax number only one for the telex?
i would guess 1985 ish.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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5 October 2010
13:4473822#5
Sorry, no details, Howard. Acquired off Ebay some years ago.
The matchbook was found in the Hospice charity shop in Dover and presumably was removed from the Montrose when she was in Dover being prepared as a blockship in December 1914 prior to the extraordinary events which saw her drift out to the Goodwins and become a total loss.
Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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6 October 2010
08:5073903#6
I worked in the Drawing Office for a short while in the mid 70's and don't remember that ruler (though likely they were handed out by the salesmen on their travels).
I have one of their ashtrays made as a miniature Cover as well as several matchbooks. The steps leading to my greenhouse is made up of steel manhole covers that were 'tested to destruction' at the works.
My father rescued many old photographs from the 1950's which I have posted on here before, as well as two of the cast plaques made to commemorate the last castings made in the foundary.
