Scientific Control Systems
1967 Company incorporated as C-E-I-R Holdings Ltd, set up by BP Trading Ltd and Kenilworth Oil Co Ltd, both of Britannic House, London.
1968 Subsequently renamed as above.
1979 Scientific Control Systems (Holdings) Ltd was renamed Scicon Holdings Ltd
1981 Company renamed Scicon International Ltd and then to Scicon UK Ltd
1982 Scicon UK was renamed Scicon Ltd
By 1986 the company was based in Milton Keynes
The company was a subsidiary of BP; British Aerospace owned 25 percent.
1988 The company was said to be Britain's largest software company but had been making losses for 3 years because of certain large contracts it had taken on. Another software company, Systems Designers acquired Scicon, forming SD-Scicon[1]
By 1991 was based in Fleet, Hants.
1991 Electronic Data Systems, a General Motors subsidiary, outbid Cray Electronics Holdings and acquired SD-Scicon[2][3]
Renamed EDS-Scicon
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Sources of Information
- Companies house filings