Remnants of a Brunsviga MH
This story serves as a reminder of what eventually will happen to all of our machines if we do not care for them well - a group with an interest in the history of Gelsenkirchen often goes out on to the streets, woods and fields to find interesting traces of a bygone past. On a walk through the "Eulenbusch" (Owl's wood), Moni happened upon this poor machine covered in leaves and snow. It is a Brunsviga MH with serial nr. 51108 (which is still legible - brass has a much longer lifetime out in the wild than iron and steel do!).I think we can be quite sure that it will never calculate again ...
So please don't forget to oil those calculators and keep them dry - the rust devil will get them !
Here is the link to the original forum post. Also go and check what happened to the machine afterwards ...