Found this in the shed

fergal.b

It seems to be some sort of adding machine but a bit heavier than the calculators of today I can only imagine the amount of moving parts inside to make it work.

MidlandsM

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wolff/calculators/Brunsviga/Brunsviga.htm

Ellis Dee

Yes, it's an adding machine. I used one like it (different make, though) as recently as the late 1960s. Don't throw it out. It might be worth a few bob.

fergal.b

Thanks for that, it looks like the Nova II from 1925 10,000 were made so not the rarest in the world. Back to doing the lotto it's still an amazing bit of kit when you think of the amount of work that must have gone into building it.

coylemj

If the internals are anything like the cash registers of the same era, it will be pretty indestructable so probably still in working order. Most people over the age of 50 would remember that adding machines were a feature on desks in bank branches up to some time in the 1970s when they were replaced with desktop electronic calculators.

fergal.b

Yep it still works I had a little play with it My dad was an accountant so I guess that is why he had it. I'd say they cost a few quid back in the day unlike the ones we have now, it's hard to believe we were using mechanical adding machines up to the 70's but then again we were using mechanical timepieces.