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Marchant Newspaper and Magazine Articles

Introduction
Articles relating to the manufacturing process
Articles relating to the Marchant factories and buildings
Other Articles
Various small articles and advertorials

There are many online archives of books, newspapers and magazines. On this page I will show various articles and extracts about or related to the Marchant Calculating Machine Company that I have found in such online archives and other online sources. If you find any others in the archives of your own country, then please let me know at mechcalc a t jaapsch d o t net.

These articles and extracts are shown here for educational and research purposes only, and no copyright infringement is intended. If you are the copyright owner of any article, and object to its presence here, let me know.
I have in some cases rearranged the layout of the text for the sake of readability, for example placing columns of text from different pages side by side in the same image, or splitting a single long column into two.

Advertisements from newspapers and magazines can be found on the Marchant Advertisements page.

Articles relating to the manufacturing process

Manufacturing a Calculating Machine in a Western Shop - Frank A. Stanley.
(1917-12-06 to 1918-05-30, The American Machinist)
A four part series explaining details of the manufacturing process for the Marchant Standard or Pony.

Punches and Dies - Frank A. Stanley.
(1919, McGraw Hill Book Co.)
Details of how parts of the casing of the Standard or Pony are formed.

Articles relating to the Marchant factories and buildings

Arranging new factory in Almeda.
(1913-08, Office Appliances)

Ground bought for the first Marchant factory.
(1914-08-16, Oakland Tribune)

Building of new plant starts.
(1915-09-12, The San Francisco Examiner)

Report of the fire that destroyed the Marchant factory on 29 November 1919.
(1919-12-27, Engineering and Mining Journal)

Oakland Supplies the World With Calculating Machines - Ralph P. Anderson
(1921-10, Bubbles, East Bay Water Company)

How to Win the Markets of the New West
(1947, Metropolitan Oakland Area)
A photo of Plant No. 2 in Emeryville.

New World Headquarters Building, Marchant Calculators, Inc.
(1958-01, Architect and Engineer)

Other Articles

Die Rechenmaschinen
(1925, Ernst Martin)

Six in the Money
(1949-08, Fortune Magazine)
The third and fourth pages discuss Marchant, and how Edgar Jessup led the company out of the depression.

Carl Friden biography
(1973, National Cyclopedia of American Biography)

Various small articles and advertorials

Marchant salesman goes to his sick brother.
(1913-10-17 Brisbee daily review, Arizona)

One month free trial.
(1914-12 American City)

Introducing the Pony.
(1917-02-24 Engineering Record)

Introducing the Pony
(1917-03 Electrical Merchandising)

Introducing the Pony.
(1917-03-15 Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering)

Firm sells in 22 countries.
(1917-11-24 The San Francisco Examiner, California)

Dennis-Marchant calculating machine.
(1918-02 Office Appliances)

Rodney Marchant vs traffic cop.
(1918-03-28 Oakland Tribune)

Brochure description of the Pony.
(1919 Modern Engineers and Surveyors Instruments)

The Lincoln Deluxe Roadster, used by Marchant salesmen.
(1921-10-09 Oakland Tribune, California)

New mechanism with fixed input pins.
(1922-01 Office Appliances)

New keyboard models.
(1922-03 Office Appliances)

Increased capitalization.
(1922-07-13 Oakland Tribune, California)

New keyboard models.
(1922-09 Office Appliances)

Marchant reorganises.
(1922-09 Office Appliances)

Electric Calculating Machine
(1925-06 Management and Administration)

A Mechanical Wizard
(1928-10-21 Sunday Times (Perth))

Marchant-Rechenmaschine
(1930 Organisations-Lexikon)

Marchant Calculators - Fast, Fully Automatic
(1948-04-25 The Corpus Christi Caller Times (Texas))

Marchant Calculators, Inc., Enters Electronics Field
(1952-08-06 Oakland Tribune (California))

Avery, Official Of Calculator Firm, Visits Marchant
(1953-08-09 The Honolulu Advertiser (Hawaii))

Obituary for Alfred H. Marchant.
(1957-11 Office Appliances)

Efficiency Expo
(1960-04-20 Het vrije volk)

The last word in calculators
(1968-09 Hewlett-Packard Journal)

The free silver dollar paperweight
(1980 Practical Selling - Shipp)

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