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Article #621118Re: Allen Wales adding machine?
From: Joe Pfeiffer
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:41
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:41
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Dave Garland <dave.g...@wizinfo.com> writes: > 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. Thanks for pointing me at that site -- mine has no National branding, so I'm guessing it's pre-1943, or at least very shortly after. I think it's probably a Model 9. It appears identical except for branding (and condition!) to the one in the link below; the description on that page says the serial number plate on the 9H in the photo starts with "9H". Mine just starts with "9" (no E or H) hence my guess. I'll also speculate that it's likely the model 9 became the 9H when they brought out the 9E (essentially the same machine, except the 9E is electric while mine and the 9H are both manual). http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_690635
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