Mercedes (office machines)
The Mercedes-Bureau-Maschinen GmbH was founded in 1906 by Gustav Mez with the Daimler acquired -Motorenwerken brand names in Berlin founded. Two years later the company settled in Mehlis . There were qualified and cheap precision mechanics there because of the weapons production there.
The production of typewriters and calculating machines was started in a new factory building near the Zella-Mehlis West train station . The production rooms had to be expanded several times. By the end of the Second World War , a large number of mechanical and electromechanical models of typewriters, calculating and accounting machines left the factory, including 1921/1922 the Mercedes Elektra of the engineer Carl Schlüns .
At the beginning of the 1960s, the company, which was now called VEB Cellatron Büromaschinenwerk Zella-Mehlis , developed Cellatron computers that determined the company's product range until the end of its existence. In 1977 it was incorporated into the Robotron combine and renamed VEB Robotron-Elektronik Zella-Mehlis . In 1990 the company was closed; all the buildings at the site of the former Mercedes factory were demolished.
Mercedes Elektra
Mercedes Euclid, adding machine from Christel Hamann
Robotron Cella, portable typewriter from the 1980s
Mercedes Euclid, Mod. 29, inventory of the MEK
Web links
- Museum in the Zella-Mehlis Bombardment Facility
- Krause / Jacobs: From the typewriter to microcomputer systems
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cellatron SER 2 - a new digital calculator. In: Motor vehicle technology 07/1962, p. 306.