> On Jul 10, 2022, at 5:06 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> On 7/10/22 13:41, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 10, 2022, at 4:10 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk
>>> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2 Jul 2022, Grant Taylor wrote:
>>>> I don't know that I've ever heard / seen the name "Rank" prefixing "Xerox"
>>>> before.
>>>
>>> Actually I knew them only as Rank Xerox many years ago, when they were
>>> commonly known as office suppliers, e.g. photo copiers and printers.
>>
>> Is the "Rank" prefix part of the company name in Europe?
>
> For a time, it was even present in Japan.
>
> The Rank Organisation. Surely you've seen some old British Pinewood
> Studios films with J. Arthur Rank's big gong as an intro?
It's vaguely familiar.
Another part of the Rank organization, at one time, was precision measurement
company Taylor-Hobson. I remember several of their their instruments in the
metrology lab at U. Eindhoven.
paul
