Regional Business Information for Yorkshire
New home for war-time skills
21st July 2010
By Rachel Covill - Business Correspondent
John Dawson (left) and Chris Black with the lathe that helped develop the “Bouncing Bomb” and the hand-written log book recording details of Dawson’s customers through the years.
EQUIPMENT used to develop prototypes for the Dambusters’ famous “bouncing bomb” has found a new home at a Yorkshire jukebox manufacturer.
Dawson’s Pattern Works business has been acquired by Leeds-based Sound Leisure for an undisclosed sum and transferred to its Crossgates factory.
Skilled pattern-maker David Whitehead, who joined Dawson’s as an apprentice 46 years ago, has moved across the city with the equipment.
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