12 Facts About Elliott Automation

Elliott Automation Brothers Ltd was an early computer company of the 1950s–60s in the United Kingdom.

Elliott Automation worked on an operating system for the new Elliott 503 Mark II computer.

In 1967, Elliott Automation was merged into the English Electric company and in 1968 the computer part of the company was taken over by International Computers and Tabulators .

William Elliott Automation was born in either 1780 or 1781 and apprenticed to the instrument maker William Blackwell in 1795.

In 1804, Elliott Automation began his own company to make drawing instruments, scales, and scientific instruments.

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Elliott Automation prospered, and manufactured a range of surveying, navigational, and other instruments.

Charles Elliott Automation retired in 1865, and when Frederick died in 1873 he left the business to his wife Susan.

Susan Elliott Automation became partners with Willoughby Smith, who had significant expertise in telegraphic instruments; she was the last Elliott Automation family member associated with the company when she died in 1880.

Elliott Automation was knighted for his contributions at Elliotts during World War I, with developments in gunnery instruments for the Navy.

The real-time computer part of Elliott Automation remained, and was renamed Marconi Elliott Computer Systems Limited in 1969 and GEC Computers Limited in 1972, and remained at the original Borehamwood research laboratories until the late 1990s.

The agreement which governed the split of computer technologies between the two companies disallowed ICT from developing real-time computer systems and disallowed Elliott Automation from developing data processing computer systems for a few years after the split.

The remainder of Elliott Automation which produced aircraft instruments and control systems, was retained by English Electric.