Title
File of Felt & Tarrant Ltd comptometer tables
Reference
YA2008.76/3
Production date
01-01-1935 - 31-12-1945
Creator
- Felt & Tarrant LtdBiographyBiography
Felt & Tarrant Ltd was a British subsidiary of the American company Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Co.
The British company is believed to have been established during the 1920s. Advertisements for Felt & Tarrant Ltd comptometers are known to exist for 1929. It is not clear for how long the subsidiary was in existence, although there is archive evidence at other repositories that it was still operational into the 1950s. The company operated a school for comptometer operators in Liverpool in 1955, as featured in Office Magazine's January 1955 issue.
Scope and Content
Tables of decimal equivalents, including:
Ounces and Drams (Dec. Card No. 3)
Wages Table for 48-Hour Week (Dec. Card No. 5)
Wages Table for 47-Hour Week
Gross (Dec. Card No. 8)
Extent
4 items
Language
English
Level of description
FILE
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Associated people and organisations
- Churchill Machine Tool Co. Ltd.BiographyBiography
The Churchill Machine Tool Company was established, intially under the name Charles Churchill and Co. in Salford, before moving to Pendleton and eventually to Broadheath, Altrincham. The company number was 00563431.
The Churchill Machine Tool Co was incorporated in 1906 by Charles Churchill of the Charles Churchill Company. By June of that year there were nearly 200 machine tools under construction at the factory and in 1907 the company already needed to enlarge its factory.
In 1918 the company acquired land at Broadheath in Altrincham, and by 1920 the firm had moved all production to the new location.
By 1961 Churchill was specialising in the manufacture of precision grinding machines. By this time the company employed 1,200 people. In the same year the company was bought by BSA and became known as BSA-Churchill Machine Tools Ltd. The business merged in 1966 with Alfred Herbert, and by 1967 had reverted to its previous name.
The firm finally wound down in the early 1970s. The factory at Broadheath closed in 1972 and the business entered liquidation in 1973. A company using The Churchill Machine Tool Co name remains active as of 2020, but Charles Churchill & Co no longer exists.
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
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