Formed in 1927 following a merger, Remington Rand was a diversified conglomerate making other office equipment, electric shavers, etc.

[1] After 1955, Remington Rand had a long series of mergers and acquisitions that eventually resulted in the formation of Unisys.

During World War II, Remington Rand produced M1911 pistols used by the United States Armed Forces.

One of its earliest factories, the former Herschell–Spillman Motor Company Complex, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

[6] From 1942 to 1945, Remington Rand was a contract manufacturer of the M1911A1 .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol used by the United States Armed Forces during World War II.

[7] Remington Rand ranked 66th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.

The strike got so severe that state and local police helped keep the strikers from throwing stones at workers and vehicles.

The propaganda was carried out by spreading rumors and lambasting the union strikers for hurting their families, by having no income for their households since they were out of work.

[15] In 1937, the NLRB decided in favor of the workers, and the board ordered Rand to stop interfering with employees' unions and their right to organize.

After the strike ended in the summer 1940, the Middletown plant had closed permanently, leaving 1,200 employees without jobs.

[19] The fifth machine (built for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) was used by CBS to predict the result of the 1952 U.S. presidential election.

[17] They also sold punched card systems, beginning with the 1928 acquisition of the Powers Accounting Machine Company and ending in the 1950s.