Douglas Equipment
Douglas Equipment, located in Cheltenham, UK, established as FL
Douglas (Equipment) Limited in 1947 by
Frank Leslie Douglas, today
trades as Douglas Equipment and
has become one of the world's leading suppliers of aviation towing
tractors, ground support vehicles, port tractors, distribution and yard
shunting tractors. Today they are a brand of Textron Ground Support Equipment Inc.
The firm also built a range of industrial tug trucks for
trailer haulage in factories, ports and docks loading ships. The
Douglas Tugmaster was introduced in the early 1950's, with a new
model for the Ro-Ro ships in 1955 called the Douglas Tugmaster
Ro-Ro.
Douglas Equipment remains a recognized leader
for more than 60 years in the manufacturing and supply of aircraft
handling tractors, including parts, service and support to the
commercial aviation and military industries worldwide. We manufacture
and supply a diverse line of conventional, towbarless, dockside and
distribution tractors.
Douglas continues to foster industry
innovations ahead of the competition while making our customer's jobs
easier by providing a wide range of industry solutions, including:
Products engineered to industry needs
Affordable product-life
costs
Increased product durability
Designed ease-of-use, with
minimal maintenance
Comprehensive service and support
Long-term
spare parts warehousing
Qualified driver and maintenance training
Work environment / partnerships
The company's challenging and
rewarding work environment, in concert with our state-of-the-art
facilities, enables the Douglas team to design, develop and deliver the
most effective industry products, parts and services, meeting the needs
and at times surpassing the expectations of our commercial aviation and
military customers.
Douglas is always seeking partnership
suppliers at all levels of business. Subsequently, they often develop
relationships with customers in new markets through these
collaborations. In 1989, Douglas introduced the Douglas-Kalmar range of
new technology Towbarless Aircraft Tractors and have now become the
world's foremost manufacturer of these versatile tractors, with units in
operation throughout Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Middle East,
Africa, South East Asia and The Far East.
January 2015 - Charlotte, USA-based Curtiss-Wright Corp. says it has
sold its Douglas Equipment business to a unit of Textron Inc. The sale
of the assets of Douglas, which is based in Chelthenham, England, allows
Curtiss-Wright to concentrate on its core commercial aviation business,
said David Adams, CEO of Curtiss-Wright. Financial terms of the deal
weren't disclosed.
Douglas, founded in 1947, makes aviation
ground-support vehicles and runway friction-measuring devices.
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