Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

National Computing Centre

From Graces Guide

1965 Announcement by the Ministry of Technology that it would establish a National Computing Centre, located in Manchester; it would be an independent, non-profit making company, limited by guarantee. Its purpose was to provide information about programs, promote development of programs and encourage the training of staff[1]

2004 A spin-off company, NCC Group, providing a back-up repository for software and an assurance service on IT security for clients, was incorporated as a public company with its shares quoted on the AIM[2]

2007 NCC Group was quoted on the main list of the London Stock Exchange[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Dec 08, 1965
  2. The Times July 10, 2004
  3. The Times, July 06, 2010