Re: Allen Wales adding machine?

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From: Dave Garland
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 02:05

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On 2/27/2018 6:37 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> I was lucky enough to find an Allen Wales manual adding machine at a gun
> show (in addition to the obvious wares, there's lots of really weird
> stuff for sale at gun shows!) last weekend; for the price I couldn't
> turn it down.  So...  I'm finding very little information about the
> company on line (just about the only concrete information I'm finding is
> that they were bought by National Cash Register in 1943).  Does anybody
> know anything about them? Any good sites I should be looking at?
> 
(model 9E)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_690633
The same site has a number of earlier machines branded Wales as well 
as several postwar Allen-Wales machines. Apparently NCR kept the brand 
alive into the early 1950s.

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From: Dave Garland <dave.g...@wizinfo.com>
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