Level: Sub-series
Reference: HAT50/1/29
Alt Ref No.: Hatrecord
Extent: 33 folders, 24 items (5 boxes)
Agency: J Walter Thompson (JWT), London
Product: Office automation
Advertiser / Client: Burroughs Machines Ltd
Admin History: The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business and office equipment (founded in 1886 as the 'American Arithmometer Company'). It originally produced mechanical adding machines and later diversified into programmable ledgers and computers. It also produced related equpiment such as typewriters and printers. Burroughs Machines Limited (also known as Burroughs Adding Machines Ltd) was the largest of the Corporation's subsidiaries. It was established in 1895 and began manufacturing in Nottingham in 1898.