Engine Query Sparks Your Memories of Life at Dupar ; Last Week Bygones Reader Alan Gifford Passed On a Request From Hereford Water Works Museum for Information About a Pelapone Diesel Engine It Had Restored and Was Made in Derby. Several Former Employees of the Company Have Responded.

Derby Evening Telegraph › October 31, 2009

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TERRY Harlow, of Mickleover, worked for Dupar Pelapone in Derby for 18 months, in the mid-1970s.

He told Bygones: "The Pelapone engine had ceased production by the time I worked there. We used to make all kinds of medium-sized generating sets, both fixed and portable. We made generating equipment for the then GPO, standby equipment for telephone exchanges and standby generators for hospitals.

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Engine Query Sparks Your Memories of Life at Dupar ; Last Week Bygones Reader Alan Gifford Passed On a Request From Hereford Water Works Museum for Information About a Pelapone Diesel Engine It Had Restored and Was Made in Derby. Several Former Employees of the Company Have Responded.

"We also manufactured a range of mobile equipment for military use, for mainly foreign governments and dev...

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