Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Byron Business Machines

From Graces Guide

of Arnold Road, Nottingham, a subsidiary of John Jardine Ltd[1].

1953 The Bar-Lock company became Byron Business Machines, which stopped production of typewriters two years later. Byron attempted to design a totally new typewriter, which met with great trouble.

1954 Patent - Improvements in or relating to ribbon drive means of typewriters and like machines. [2]

1954 Patent - Improvements in or relating to typewriters. [3]

1957 All work on development of the new typewriter ceased

1958 Byron sold its entire office machine business to the Oliver Typewriter Manufacturing Co.

1960 Byron developed a toy typewriter and began production.


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Nov 20, 1961
  2. [1] Wikipatents
  3. [2] Wikipatents