University of Minnesota. Davies describes computer projects at the U.K. National Physical Laboratory, from the 1947 design work of Alan Turing to the development of the two ACE computers. Davies discusses a much larger, second ACE, and the decision to contract with English Electric Company to build the DEUCE—which he calls the first commercially produced computer in Great Britain. "The Deuce" a 1955 Flight article on the Deuce 1950s computers Early British computers English Electric Vacuum tube computers Computer-related introductions in 1955 Serial computers