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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D5255
TitleInternal Combustion Ltd, Derby
Date1955-1967
DescriptionPrinted pamphlets and ephemera
Extent2 boxes
LevelFonds
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
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Archive CreatorInternal Combustion Ltd, Derby
Administrative HistoryInternational Combustion Ltd was 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.
Custodial HistoryDeposited in Derbyshire Record Office in May 2000. Much of the collection remains unlisted - see D5255/UL.
Organisation Sub-TypeEngineering and Heavy Industry
TermBusiness
Places
Place (click for further details)Type
Derby 
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