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High Duty Alloys Redditch Heritage
Die sinking for the
Vulcan leg. Similar work
done in war.
Other Redditch men to play
prominent roles within High
Duty Alloys were John Earl,
who from the mid-1940's
was Production Manager,
and Mike Scanlan who
began as Foundry Manager
around the end of the war
before becoming Blade
Forge and then General
Harrier on Daily Mail Transatlantic Race – 1969.
Forge Manager, finally
retiring in the mid-1980's.
The desire to keep quality of product as high as possible necessitated top class laboratory
facilities for the testing of new parts and production batches and J. V. (Bill) Scanlan was
Works Metallurgist. I was fortunate to be involved in that from 1974 to 1993. In fact it
was Bill Scanlan who gave me my job there. He had joined HDA in 1941 at Slough where
he went to college to study metallurgy (and where he was bombed during the blitz of
winter 1940/41). He moved to Redditch in 1943 and became works metallurgist in
1951/52.
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