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Maxam Power
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of Camborne
1958 Holman Brothers established Maxam Power as a subsidiary company to develop and exploit its technology for industrial automation of work processes. Was developing and manufacturing the Goodyear pump, and rotary pneumatic tools[1]
1966 Introduced a novel system of control based on fluid logic[2]
1968 Supplied a logic control unit to Culter Paper Mills at Aberdeen [3]
1968 Part of the new International Compressed Air Corporation[4].
1970 Applications of Maxam fluidic logics included control of the filling of aerosols, control of gantry filling of oil road tankers, control of a capstan lathe, positioning of drilling machinery in coal mines[5]
1973 Maxam Power and Hamilton Controllers were renamed Compair Maxam