International Combustion Australia Limited was a separate non-affiliated company.
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] By 1959 it had expanded its activities such that it was awarded the contract to provide the boilers for Trawsfynydd nuclear power station.
[2] 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.