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Automatic Control Engineering

From Graces Guide

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.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times June 30, 1961
  2. The Times Aug. 11, 1961
  3. Daily Herald 06 June 1961
  4. The Times Nov. 30, 1962
  5. Newcastle Journal 11 October 1968
  6. Sheerness Times Guardian 05 April 1974