Corporate DS/UK/4121 Derby; International Combustion Ltd; 1923-1997; heavy engineering firm International Combustion Ltd heavy engineering firm 1923-1997 Derby International Combustion Engineering

International Combustion Ltd was founded by Wilfred Rothery Wood (1870-1939), an American, in 1898 in London as the Automatic Furnance Syndicate. It changed its name to the Underfeed Stoker Company in 1902 and then to International Combustion Engineering when it moved to Derby, based at a 55 acre site off Sinfin Lane in Derby. The works opened in 1923 and were extended in 1928. A new heavy engineering shop opened in 1959. On site there was a machine shop, erecting shop, plate shop, foundry, pattern shop, stores and a large open plate shop field for heavy structural engineering work. The company had its own laboratory and test house. The firm’s products included all types of water tube boilers, all types of mechanical stoking equipment, tangential firing burners and short flame fuel burners for pulverised fuel and many types of milling machinery. The company 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 who passed on International Combustion to ABB Group in 1997. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Derbyshire Record Office Collections Manual Section 7 v5.1 (May 2020) Yes DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 24/12/2021 DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 24/12/2021 c10c71d1-613c-4835-adc9-b36692186131