Dorothée Pullinger’s Timeline

Thomas Charles Pullinger moves to Sunbeams (Wolverhampton) (John Marston Ltd was the original name). T.C. Pullinger was appointed as works manager in 1902. Under Pullinger,…

Thomas Charles Pullinger seconded to Weirs Ltd, Cathcart, Glasgow, for about 10 weeks, to oversee the construction of 3 cars for Darracq, to Darracq design,…

Thomas Charles Pullinger and family living in Beeston because that was where Humber factory was[1]. But it closed[2] in 1907 as unprofitable. Some 3,000 workers…

Thomas Pullinger invited by Beardmore to take on his car factory at Arrol Johnston, Underwood in Paisley. It had been losing money and Beardmore wasnt…

Birth of Dorothée’s sister Aurelie Irene Majorie Pullinger (1909–1992), on 16 Apr 1909, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom Dorothée passed the Oxford local examination as a…

Dorothee turned 18 years old in 1910, her sister Jean Madeleine Sitwell was born in Scotland. Thomas Pullinger and presumably at least his daughter Dorothée…

Dorothee’s brother Douglas Allen Malcom Pullinger was born on the 4 Oct 1911, in Swinlees, Dalry, Ayrshire. Her sisters Yvonne and Helene were boarders at…

Thomas Charles Pullinger travelled to the United States, on board the Columbia to New York, to observe car factory design and the mass production methods…

Heathhall factory opened in July 1913. Built by S. Stevenson & Co. of Glasgow

The First World War began before the factory was in full production, and the company switched from manufacturing automobiles to producing aero engines for the…

Dorothée was recruited to be the lady superintendant manager of women employed by Vickers at Barrow in Furness, making high explosive shells, eventually becoming responsible…

King and Queen make a visit to Barrow in May 1917. Amongst many others Miss Pullinger, Lady Superintendent is mentioned in newspaper reports.

After the war, as Galloway Motors Ltd, and with Dorothée Pullinger as one of the directors and managers, the factory produced a light car for…

Dorothée received an MBE for her war service and lived at The Brae, Dumfries in 1920.

Thomas Pullinger and his family moved to Dee View, Tongland.

Dorothée becomes the first woman member of the Institute of Automobile Engineers. Her first application had been in 1920. Thomas Charles Pullinger arrived back in…

On 9 October 1924, in Dumfries, Dorothée married Edward Marshall Martin (1895–1951), at that time a P&O ship’s purser on SS Naldera, and son of…

Occasionally living at Flat No 1, 30 Roland Gardens, South Kensington, London SW7 Kaiser-i-Hind (P&OSNCo), Marseilles – Edward and Dorothee Martin departed 29th May 1925,…

Birth of Dorothee’s daughter Yvette Martin (le Couvey) (1924–) in Jersey. 1926 approx – date uncertain With her husband in the late 1920s she set…

Heathhall factory closed. Thomas Charles Pullinger retired to Jersey. Dorothée gets her driving licence at The Brae, St Brelades, Jersey Dorothée bought West Sussex Laundry,…

Birth of Dorothee’s son Lewis Martin(1932–)

Dorothée and her family lived at 1212 London Road, Norbury, London SW16. It was commandeered in the war and they moved around a lot.

She returned to the Engineering Industry during 1941, appointed to the Nuffield organisation to supervise the recruitment and employment of woman labour. In the early…

They moved to Harwood, Salfords, Surrey.

West Sussex Laundry wound up.

Death of Dorothée’s father Thomas Charles Willis Pullinger (1867–1945), 19 Jul 1945 , Kensington, London, England. Note that this is before end of WW2 (on…

White Service Laundries was sold in 1946.

Dorothee settled in Guernsey in 1947. Her husband had been in UNRRA in the war and then bought Les Nicolles farm in Guernsey where Yvette…

Established Normandy Laundries in 1950, which is still in business.

Death of Husband Edward Marshall Martin (–1951), 31 Mar 1951, Guernsey

Death of Dorothée’s mother Aurelie Berenice Sitwell (1871–1956) 1956, Jersey, Channel Islands.

Dorothée lives at the Old Government House Hotel – Guernsey (permanent resident until being moved briefly to nursing home).

11 January 1986 Dorothée passed away in the nursing home la Borne Milliaire, Rue à l’Or, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands.