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 163,981 pages of information and 245,954 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.

Istel

From Graces Guide

of Redditch, provider of computer services

1979 BL Systems formed to bring together all of the computer, communications and data processing services for BL Cars.[1]

1984 Renamed Istel in preparation for privatisation

1986 About 30 percent of the work was for the parent Rover Group. Preparations began to privatize the last of that company's fringe activities, the computing operation Istel of Redditch[2]

1988 Planned flotation of the shares[3]

Management buyout

1989 Acquired by AT&T (UK)[4]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Dec 01, 1983
  2. The Times, August 05, 1986
  3. The Times, July 18, 1988
  4. The Times, September 27, 1989