Dorothée Aurélie Marianne Pullinger MBE AMI MECHE (13 January 1894 – 28 January 1986) was an Anglo-French automobile engineer and businesswoman, and a pioneering woman engineer.

Born in Saint-Aubin-sur-Scie

Saint-Aubin-sur-Scie

Saint-Aubin-sur-Scie is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:A farming village situated by the banks of the river Scie in the Pays de Caux, at the junction of the D54 and the N 27 roads, some south of...

, Seine Inférieure, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, she was the eldest of the eleven children of the engineer Thomas Charles Pullinger (1867–1945), and his wife, Aurélie Berenice, née Sitwell (1871–1956). She was educated at Loughborough High School

Loughborough High School

Loughborough High School, also known simply as LHS, is a selective, independent, fee-paying British Public School for girls in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It is one of three Private Schools known collectively as the Loughborough Endowed Schools, along with Loughborough Grammar School for...

. She worked for the car firm Galloway

Galloway (car)

Galloway was a British car maker founded in 1920 as a subsidiary company to Arrol-Johnston. It was based at first at Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire, and from 1923 at Heathall, Dumfries. It closed in 1928.-History:...

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External links

• http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101071798/
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/southscotland/low/people_and_places/history/newsid_8411000/8411826.stm