Dorothée Pullinger – Barrow-in-Furness

Dorothée Aurélie Marianne Pullinger MBE. Aero and automobile engineer and entrepreneur trained at Arrol Johnston’s car factory and was headhunted to become the very young supervisor of Vickers Barrow’s thousands of WW1 munitionettes. 
Nina Baker will tell the story behind the Dorothée Pullinger’s plaque, which visitors to BAE SYSTEMS Works can see on the right as they cross Michaelson Road Bridge, Barrow-in-Furness.

Speaker: Nina Baker, Independent Engineering Historian

Organised by: IET/PESC
Contact: Anne Morris, (anne.morris@ietvolunteer.org)