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The first calculators from Marchant Calculating Machine Company, of Oakland, Clifornia, U.S.A., in 1911 were pin-wheel rotary types. Marchant put in a lot of development works into the later models of the keyboard type, which culminated in very fast electrically driven versions capable of automatically deriving square roots.

In 1958 Marchant merged with the Smith Corona Typewriter Company to form Smith Corona Marchant (SCM), and In 1963 the calculator manufacture transfered to Orangeburg South Carolina.

In the early 1970s SCM started marketing electronic calculators made by other companies, but soon started their own manufacture, especially the "Cogito" models. In about 1973, SCM was another casualty of the dramatic drop in prices of calculators and exited the calculator market.

See the article "Notes on Monroe and Marchant Calculators" in the Collecting Calculators section of this site.

 

Examples of Marchant calculators

Early Marchant

An early keyboard model Marchant hand-operated calculator.

Marchant 8CM

Marchant 8CM "Figurematic"
An electrically driven, high specification, mechanical calculator from the 1960s.

SCM1011CB

SCM 1011CB
A very stylish, simple, 10-key add-lister from SCM, dating from the 1960s to early 1970s.

Marchant 1

Marchant I
The first Marchant hand-held electronic calculator.

For further photographs of Marchant hand-held calculators see the Calculator Photo Library on this site.

 

A new article on this site is 'Audio Recording of 1967 Sales Talk for Marchant Adding Machines'.  A sales talk urging the salesmen of SCM (Smith-Corona Marchant) to sell more Marchant adding machines.

Below are lists of serial numbers of Marchant calculators manufactured between 1934 and 1957 (kindly supplied by Ron Ames, who worked for Monroe and SCM from 1966 to 1977).

Serial numbers of Marchant Silent Speed calculators
by year and model

The "M" in the serial number means thousands, so for example 104M refers to serial numbers 104,000 to 104,999 (though not all of the series may have been used).

Models other than plain D's or M's indicated by prefixes.

Year

10M

8M

10D

8D

1934

 

 

 

 

100M

 

101M

1935

104M

 

107M

 

103M
110M

102M
105M

114M

1936

106M
108M

109M

112M

 

120M

117M

 

1937

111M
115M

116M
122M

113M
118M

119M

124M

121M
123M

125M

1938

126M
CT 1265M

 

127M

 

 

128M
129M

 

1939

CT 131M
     134M
CT 135M

CT 136M
  137M

133M
1355M

 

CT 130M

132M
1345M

138M

1940

CT 139M
142M

CT 143M

CR 141M
CR 145M

 

 

140M
144M

 

1941

CT 146M
ACR 149M

ACR 152M

CR 148M
CR 151M
154M

CR 155M
156M
158M

157M

147M
150M
153M

 

1942

ACR 159M
ACT 163M
ACT 166M

ACT 169M

ACR 161M
ACR 165M

ACR 167M
ACR 171M

ACR 164M
168M

160M
ACR 162M

170M
ACR 172M

1943

ACT 173M
ACT 177M

ACT 180M

ACR 174M
ACR 178M

ACR 181M

175M

ACR 176M
ACR 179M

 

1944

ACT 182M
ACT 186M
ACT 189M

 

ACR 183M
ACR 187M
ACR 190M

 

ACR 184M

ACR 185M
ACR 188M

ACR 191M

1945

ACT 194M
ACT 196M

ACT 198M
ACT 203M

ACR 193M
ACR 195M
ACR 197M

ACR 199M
ACR 201M
ACR 205M

ACR 202M

ACR 192M
ACR 200M
ACR 204M

 

1946

ACT 206M
ACT 209M
ACT 212M
ACT 216M

ACT 219M
ACT 221M
ACT 225M

ACR 207M
ACR 208M
ACR 210M
ACR 213M
ACR 215M

ACR 217M
ACR 220M
ACR 223M
ACR 226M

ACR 224M

ACR 211M
ACR 214M
ACR 218M

ACR 222M
ACR 227M

1947

ACT 229M
ACT 232M
ACT 235M

ACT 238M
ACT 240M
ACT 243M

ACR 228M
ACR 231M
ACR 233M
ACR 236M

ACR 239M
ACR 242M
ACR 244M

 

ACR 230M
ACR 234M
ACR 237M

ACR 241M
ACR 245M

1948

ACT 246M
ACT 251M
ACT 253M
ACT 256M
ACT 259M

ACT 264M
ACT 266M
ACT 270M
ACT 272M

ACR 247M
ACR 250M
ACR 254M
ACR 257M
ACR 260M

ACR 262M
ACR 265M
ACR 267M
ACR 269M
ACR 273M

ACR 249M
ACR 271M

ACR 248M
ACR 252M
ACR 255M
ACR 258M

ACR 261M
ACR 263M
ACR 268M

Serial numbers of Marchant Figuremaster, Figurmatic, and Semi-Automatic calculators by year and model

Year

Figuremaster

Figurematic

Semi-Automatic

10-Bank

8-Bank

10-Bank

8-Bank

10-Bank

8-Bank

1948

FA 285M

FA 286M

FA 280M

FA 281M

 

 

 

SD 299M

SD 290M

1949

FA 287M
FA 289M
FA 308M
AFA310M

FA 288M
FA 307M
FA 309M
FA 311M

FA 282M
FA 284M
FA 301M
FA 303M

FA 283M
FA 300M
FA 302M

 

DX 312M

 

 

SD 291M
SD 292M
SD 203M
SD 294M
SD 295M
SD 296M

1950

FA 313M
FA 318M
FA 324M
FA 330M

FA 315M
FA 321M
EFA 325M
FA 334M

FA 304M
FA 306M
EFA 332M

FA 305M
FA 317M
FA 336M

SDX 320M
SDX 335M

SDX 314M
SDX 316M
SDX 328M

 

SD 323M

SD 297M
TD 338M

1951

EFA 326M
EFA 327M
EFA 331M
EFA 351M
EFA 357M
EFA 363M
EFA 369M
EFA 374M
EFA 379M
EFA 383M

EFA 334M
EFA 346M
EFA 348M
EFA 354M
EFA 361M
EFA 366M
EFA 372M
EFA 376M
EFA 381M

EFA 333M
EFA 345M
EFA 355M
EFA 365M
EFA 375M

EFA 339M
EFA 352M
EFA 358M
EFA 368M
EFA 378M

SDX 343M
SDX 360M
SDX 371M

SDX 424M
SDX 349M
SDX 353M
SDX 359M
SDX 364M
SDX 370M

SDX 347M
SDX 350M
SDX 356M
SDX 362M
SDX 367M
SDX 377M

TDR 341M

SD 297M
TD 338M

1952

EFA 385M
EFA 389M
EFA 392M
ABFA402M

EFA 387M
AFA 400M
EFA 395M

EFA 380M
EFA 388M
EFA 394M

EFA 384M
EFA 390M

SDX 393M
DRX 401M
DRX 406M
DRX 408M

DRX 398M
DRX 405M
DRX 409M
DRX 413M
DRX 416M
DRX 420M

DRX 403M
DRX 407M
DRX 411M
SDRX415M
DRX 418M
DRX 422M

DR 397M

DR 396M
DR 399M

1953

EFA 417M
EFA 439M
ABFA447M
ABFA435M

 

EFA 414M
EFA 437M

EFA 425M

DRX 412M
ADX 430M
ADX 443M
ADX 445M

ADX 419M
ADX 423M
DRX 426M
DRX 428M
DRX 431M
DRX 434M
DRX 438M
ADX 442M
ADX 448M

ADX 421M
DRX 424M

DRX 429M
ADX 433M
DRX 436M
DRX 440M
ADX 444M
ADX 450M

 

DR 410M
TD 441M
TD 446M

1954

EFA 461M
EFA 467M
ABFA469M
EFA 471M
ABFA472M

 

EFA 465M

 

ADX 449M
ADX 451M
ADX 453M
ADX 459M
ADX 463M

ADX 452M
ADX 456M
ADX 460M
ADX 464M
ADX 468M
ADX 473M

ADX 454M
ADX 458M
ADX 462M
ADX 466M
ADX 470M

TD 457M

DE 455M

Serial numbers of Marchant Deci. Magic, Figurmaster, Figurmatic, and Bar Type calculators by year and model

Year

Figuremaster

Figurematic

Bar Type

10-Bank

8-Bank

10-Bank

8-Bank

10-Bank

8-Bank

1955

EFA 474
EFA 488
EFA 494
SKA 386

ABFA 484
ABFA 492

EFA 482

ADX 476
ADX 480
ADX 486
ADX 490

RX 391
ADX 475
ADX 477
DX 478
ADX 479
ADX 481
ADX 483
ADX 485
ADX 487

RX 382
ADX 489
ADX 491
ADX 493
ADX 495
DX 496
ASX 497
ADX 499

 

 

1956

ABFA 498
ABFA 508
ABFA 514
ABFA 524

EFA 500
EFA 512
EFA 516
EFA 526

EFA 504
EFA 518
EFA 521

CXX 404
ADX 509
ADX 519
CXX 520
ADX 529

ADX 501
ADX 503
ADX 505
ADX 507
DX 510

ADX 511
ADX 513
ADX 515
ADX 517
ADX 523
ADX 525

 

TD 506
DX 522

1957

EFA 528
EFA 538
SKA 542
SKA 432
SKA 427

ABFA 530
ABFA 540
EFA 545
ABFA 547

EFA 543

ADX 536
ADX 539
ADX 546

ADX 527
ADX 531
ADX 533
DX 534
ADX 535

ADX 537
ADX 541
ADX 544
ADX 548

TD 532
DCR 550

DCR 551

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