1930 Woodstock Electrite #E37266
Status: My Collection
Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
Created: 11-02-2025 at 05:16PM
Last Edit: 11-03-2025 at 05:16AM
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Description:
Another one that significantly extends the known SN range and the number of machines that may have been produced. The last ads are Dec 1930. If the pattern of 7000 units per year continued and then tailed off, as the ads do, it would look something like this:
19000 / 1927 / 7000 / ads 257
26000 / 1928 / 7000 est / ads 327
32000 / 1929 / 6000 est / ads 74
37000 / 1930 /5000 est / ads 20
E11-39xxx is probably a 1930 machine as well. Pushing towards 40,000 machines would call into question Beeching's assessment that "relatively few were sold". This is assuming Woodstock was working sequentially through the SNs, which appears they were.
Woodstock has a huge ad spend in magazines. They work hard to get the government to purchase them. Initially, they were doing so, but a restriction was set. Do you want to bet that the typewriter trust lobbied to get that? As late as 1929 Woodstock is going before the committee for a waiver so the government will purchase the Electrite. Could this be the ultimate reason the machine "failed" in the marketplace?
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