Automatic Control Engineering
of Billingham, designers and constructor of automatic control equipment
1961 Won the contract to supply the instrumentation for the Dragon reactor being built for the AEA at Winfrith, Dorset[1]
1961 Existing subsidiaries of Constructors John Brown's pipelining division were:[2]
1961 of Roxby Place, Seagrave Road, London S.W.6.[3]
1962 Merger of the instrumentation and automatic control activities of the Automatic Control Engineering company with that of Hartons International with the formation of A. C. E.-Hartons[4]; to that end a new JV company was incorporated
1965 Name changed to Automatic Control Engineering Ltd
1968 Manufacturers of a wide range of mechanical and electro/mechanical control devices used in domestic appliances[5]
1969 of Sidcup, filed a patent on improvements in proportional measuring apparatus.
1974 of Roxby House, Station Road, Sidcup, Kent[6]
1978 Name changed to Roxby Engineering International Ltd; various subsidiaries including Corrosion and Welding Engineering Ltd and similarly named companies.