ContributorCommunity HistoryDescriptionThe "Facit" company was established in Stockholm in 1918 to build a line of pin-wheel calculators based on the Odhner mechanism. In 1924 Facit became part of Atvidaberg Industries, a long-established firm of office furniture and equipment suppliers. Facit production moved to Atvidaberg, and the model range developed rapidly. As the firm grew it absorbed the Halda typewriter company in 1938, Original-Odhner in 1942, and Addo in 1966. At its peak the company had over a thousand employees, with sales agents in a hundred countries, before collapsing in the early 1970s.CollectionCivic collectionDate createdc1950Height (mm)140Width (mm)220Depth (mm)200Maker marks / inscriptionsFacit SwedenMaterialsMetal alloy and plasticHistorical details
Facit Model C1-13, S/N 556608, 1957.
New model numbers were allocated in 1957, with the TK-style machines becoming Model C1-13. The mechanism did not change significantly, but the case and clearing levers were re-styled, the numeral keys became square, and the Facit badge became round. This 1957 machine is still finished in the earlier two-tone green, with the Facit name spelled out across the back on a row of separate small round buttons. The metal foil label above the registers was prepared by the local agents as a conversion table from pence to decimals of a pound. A more technical label was available for scientific and engineering applications.
