| Description | The file relates to the mechanisation of work: acquisition of a tabulator by the Bullion Office, 1939; movement of equipment and the greater part of the office to Barlaston Hall, Stoke on Trent, 1939; list of Hollerith machines at Head Office and Barlaston Hall, 15 February 1940; list of Loans Office operations mechanised since April 1937; note of associated staff savings, 31 July 1942; merger of Hollerith and Powers Samas, January 1959; and the naming of the new company as International Computers Limited (ICT). |