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The High Duty Alloy factory at Redditch, not only contributed significantly to the war effort
but since the war has become a leading supplier to the aerospace industry. It has been a
major employer in Redditch for 75 years and many generations of some families have
worked at the 'alloys.

Many Redditch residents fondly remember their working time at HDA and the workforce
celebrated in April 1999 when the business was awarded The Queens Award for Export
Achievement. As the millennium dawned so did a new vision for the firm as H.D.A. was
purchased by the Mettis Group in September 2000.

High Duty Alloys came into being through the efforts of a dominant personality, Colonel
Wallace Charles Devereux. From the late 1920s Devereux became one of the most
important names in British industry and in stature stands alongside any of the people in
aviation at that time, people like Geoffrey de Havilland, Frederick Handley Page and Sir
Henry Royce. In many ways Devereux and HDA remain unsung heroes of World War Two.

The Doctors Dow

Medical Practitioners

The first Doctor Dow of Redditch was John Campbell -
Dow who was born in 1894 in Argyll, Scotland and
died in 1966. At the time of his death he was living
at ‘The Limes’, Worcester Road, Redditch. John
Cambell Dow became a Doctor in Redditch in 1923
and was succeeded by his two sons, Doctor Thomas
Campbell Dow and Doctor Iain Campbell Dow and,
after their retirement, by his grandson Doctor John
Dow, who is still in practice in William Street,
Redditch.

The Dow Surgery in Redditch

(Source: The Local Data Company)

Source/Researched by: Redditch Standard & Ancestry Site

Life and Times of The Doctors Dow

Doctor Thomas Cambell Dow was born in 1925 and died in 2015. He became a G.P. in
Redditch in 1950 and retired in 1991.

Doctor Iain Campbell Dow was born in 1928 and died in 2012.

1924 - Kelly’s Directory, John Campbell Dow, M.B., Ch.B. Physician and Surgeon, The
Laurels, Evesham Street,

1928 - Kelly’s Directory John Campbell Dow, M.A., M.B., Ch.B.Glas. Physcn. & Surgn, The
Limes, Worcester Road, Redditch.

1940 - Kellys Directory, John Campbell Dow, M.A., M.B., Ch.B., physcn. and surgn., 4
Feckenham Road.

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