ANCMECA

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Association Nationale des Collectionneurs de Machines à Ecrire et à Calculer mécaniques
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place La Poitevinière
opening 1993
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Mignon typewriter (1906)
Encryption machine Enigma I (1942)

ANCMECA ( spelling also ancmeca ) stands for Association Nationale des Collectionneurs de Machines à Ecrire et à Calculer mécaniques ( German  " National Association of collectors of typewriters and mechanical calculators " ). This French association is based in La Grange - La Sarazinière in La Poitevinière , about 50 km east of Nantes .

history

The club was founded in 1993 to bring together Maxime Cunin and François Babillot with the aim of like-minded collectors and the scientific and technical heritage of this special area of precision engineering and the associated training occupation of Feinwerkmechaniker to preserve. At the same time, he wants to contribute to promoting people's creative imagination and creativity.

The association is, contrary to its name Association nationale , an international association that brings together and stands more than a hundred members with different professions not only from France, but also from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Great Britain open to everyone who wants to get involved in the cause.

Exhibits

In addition to a large number of historical typewriters and calculators , the collector's items also include an Enigma I rotor cipher machine  (picture), which was used by the German Wehrmacht in World War II .

Web links

Commons : ANCMECA  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Le Forum de l'ANCMECA (French), accessed on March 9, 2018.
  2. ^ Histoire et Missions (French), accessed March 9, 2018.

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '26 "  N , 0 ° 55' 40"  W.