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Thursday, 16 October 2014

The Touch Suited Us: Australia's Largest Typewriter Order

June 1914
This announcement was made by Henry Gray Cambridge (1868-1922), who established the Union Trust-controlled United Typewriter and Supplies Company in Australia in 1895.
Cambridge
1914 advert
The Australian Minister for Home Affairs at the time this order was placed was Prime Minister Joseph Cook (1860-1947). The acting head of the department was Walter David Bingle (1861-1928).
 Joseph Cook
 Bingle
1914 advert

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