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1920-2003
R.F.D. Ltd was formed in 1920 by British engineer Reginald Foster Dagnall (1888-1942), using the initials of his name. He had been involved in making airships and balloons from when he was 22 with the Willows Company, then Spence Bros. and later Airships Ltd. where he became general manager. Dagnall had experimented with inflatable boats since before the First World War and in 1932 RFD invented the first inflatable life raft. The company was based in Godalming from 1936 and expanded rapidly during the Second World War filing large numbers of patents. Dagnall died in 1942 but the company continued, selling the Godalming site in 1986 and moving manufacturing to Northern Ireland. In 2003 it merged with Beaufort (Air-Sea) Equipment Ltd to become RFD Beaufort Ltd, later acquired by Survitec Group.
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