14 Facts About Remington Rand

Remington Rand was an early American business machine manufacturer, originally a typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mainframe computers.

Remington Rand was formed in 1927 by the merger of the Remington Typewriter Company and Rand Kardex Corporation.

From 1942 to 1945, Remington Rand was a contract manufacturer of the M1911A1.

Remington Rand produced more M1911A1 pistols than any other wartime manufacturer.

Remington Rand ranked 66th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.

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In 1950, Remington Rand acquired the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, founded by the makers of the ENIAC, and in 1952, they acquired Engineering Research Associates, both of which were pioneers in electronic computing.

At that time, Remington Rand was one of the biggest computer companies in the United States.

Remington Rand was acquired by Sperry Corporation in 1955 to form Sperry Rand.

Remington Rand bought the Noiseless Typewriter Company in 1924, and the Noiseless Typewriter Company kept their company name and their workers were getting paid by Remington Rand.

In 1937, the NLRB decided in favor of the workers, and the board ordered Rand to stop interfering with employees' unions and the right to organize.

Remington Rand had bought the design from its inventor, Christopher Sholes.

Remington Rand "Quiet-Riter" made for the British domestic market in the late 1950s.

In 1949, Remington Rand designed the Remington Rand 409, a control panel programmed punched card calculator.

Remington Rand Products was sold in 2003 to the battery manufacturer Rayovac.