International Combustion

International CombustionCompany type| Public

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Industry| Engineering
Founded| 1898
Defunct| 1997
Fate| Acquired
Successor| Clarke Chapman
Headquarters| Derby, UK
Products| Nuclear engineering
Boilers
Pulverising mills

International Combustion Limited was a major engineering business based in Derby offering products for the nuclear engineering industry. International Combustion Australia Limited was a separate non-affiliated company.

## History

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The Company was founded by W. R. Wood, an American, in 1898 in London as the Automatic Furnance Syndicate.[1] It changed its name to the Underfeed Stoker Company in 1902 and then to International Combustion Engineering when it moved to Derby in 1922.[1] At that time it concentrated on the production of castings from its new foundry.[1] It acquired Clayton Equipment Company in 1957.[2]

By 1959 it had expanded its activities such that it was awarded the contract to provide the boilers for Trawsfynydd nuclear power station.[3] It was acquired by Clarke Chapman in 1974 and then absorbed into Northern Engineering Industries ('NEI') in 1977; in 1989 NEI was itself acquired by Rolls-Royce plc and they decided to pass on International Combustion to ABB Group in 1997.[4]

## References

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1. ^ a b c International Combustion Ltd from American roots to Sinfin Lane Archived 2010-10-01 at the Wayback Machine Byegone Derbyshire, 1 February 2010
2. ^ "International Combustion". Grace's Guide. 5 September 2013. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
3. ^ The UK Magnox and AGR Power Station Projects[permanent dead link]
4. ^ UK Business Park Archived 2012-01-25 at the Wayback Machine

## External links

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* Grace's guide

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* ABB Motors & Mechanical
* ASEA
* Brown, Boveri & Cie
* International Combustion
* Mincom
* Thomas & Betts

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* Klaus Agthe
* Percy Barnevik
* Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown
* Donald Rumsfeld
* Peter Sutherland

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