In article ,
Tim Streater writes:
In article , Andrew Mawson
wrote:

ICL West Gorton was originally Ferranti West Gorton. ICL was formed from ICT
and bits of Ferranti and government money.

Don't forget Elliott Automation and English Electric Leo Marconi (EELM)
which were also force-merged into ICL.

Only parts of them - both Elliott Automation and English Electric
continued existing afterwards. I described the technology split
between ICT and Elliott Automation elsewhere in the thread
(data processing computing to ICT, and process control and military
computing to Elliott Automation which changed names a couple more
times to GEC Computers and some bits to other GEC companies such as
EASAMS).

English Electric got all the non-computing bits of the merging
businesses, but almost immediately afterwards became part of GEC.

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