Systemedia (Supplies Division)

 

Systemedia Locations

 

The Supplies Department, in the UK, was located on the 5th Floor, Marylebone from 1942 with a branch at  Harrow Road by 1948

The Supplies Department, which had existed in Dayton before 1891, expanded its product line to include most consumables which clients required to operate their various business  machines. At the time of the first world war there were staffing problems and in 1916 the war-time Supplies Department in the UK comprised the Printing, Purchasing and Electro Departments.

 

Cash Register Rolls

 

This was one of the first areas where paper rolls were required. Although paper rolls were used in the Paper Roll Register, small Detail Roll printers were first added to National Cash Register ranges from 1894.

 

Ink Ribbons

 

These were supplied with new cash registers with 10 and then five being supplied for a few years, from 1901. Additional ribbons could be bought, when required, from the Sales Agent.

No Pad Required & Price Markers (Porous Rubber)

In June 1949 it was reported that the Company's activity in connection with Self Service in this country has resulted in the addition of a new line, carried as a stock item, by the Supplies Division. This takes the form of a merchandise marking outfit made up of rubber stamps for both pricing and points marking, stamp pads, and ink having special properties which make it not only quick drying but suitable for use on surfaces like cellophane, porcelain, metal and glass. Orders have already started to come in for these sets.

 

NCR Research and Development Laboratories had been researching porous rubber as long ago as the late 1930s which resulted in a patent submission in June 1940 which was granted as Patent US2318465A in May 1943. Patent US2620731 for hand Price Marker stamps, was filed in March 1950 and granted in December 1952. Altogether about 67 patents were taken out in the USA of which over half were extended to cover Great Britain.