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British Industrial History
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Thompson Ramo Wooldridge
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See TRW
1953 Formation of Ramo Woodridge Corporation[1] by 2 engineers who had worked at Hughes Aircraft.
1961 Thompson Ramo Wooldridge formed a JV with GEC to market Thompson's industrial process control systems in the UK; Thompson would contribute experience of applying industrial process control in industry; the new company would be called International Systems Control[2]
1964 Acquired Ross Gear and Tool, world's largest maker of hydrostatic steering systems[3]
1965 Thompson Ramo Wooldridge was renamed TRW of Cleveland and Los Angeles[4]
Maker of valves and power steering pumps
1965 Acquired Clifford Motor Components and Cam Gears
1999 Acquired LucasVarity
2002 Goodrich acquired the former Lucas Aerospace division, maker of flight controls and cargo handling systems[5]
2002 Heavily in debt, TRW Incorporated was acquired by Northrop Grumman[6]