"Elliott" was one of several names that mostly disappeared from the British computer industry after the numerous mergers used to create International Computers Limited (ICL) in 1968. The Elliott story had begun in 1804 with the Elliott Instrument Company and over the years the company had diversified, moving into the areas of analogue computers during WW1 while working with Admiralty and digital computers after WW2. In 1957 the company became "Elliott Automation" and by 1961 it was producing half of all the new computers installed in the UK that year. However none of Elliott's commercial computing products that were transferred to ICL were carried forward by them whilst Elliott's industrial and military computing products were transferred to part of the GEC/Marconi group where they continued to be further developed for a number of years.