An extraordinarily brave soldier and a charismatic leader, his attempt to kill Hitler on 20 July at the Nazi leader's eastern HQ - known as the 'Wolf's Lair' - will receive the Hollywood treatment in a new film, Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise and Kenneth Branagh, being released next year.
Despite being almost a hundred years old, Dorman proudly proclaims that it's new since 1918 because of its desire to be constantly innovative. This is how it actually began. Ten years after the automobiles became popular in America, brothers Jack and Lew Dorman began taking replacement parts from junked cars and selling them in 1918.
This was to be its main product up to the point where it was taken over by the English Electric Company in 1961, though the Dorman name continued as a diesel engine trademark until 1995 (from 1968 under the ownership of the General Electric Company plc and later by Broadcrown Ltd).