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The company installed Powers Samas punch card machines to cope with the volume of statistical and record work which followed the formation of the Prudential Approved Societies to administer the new National Health Insurance. By 1923, Prudential had the largest installation of punched card machines in the world, with over 150 punchers, sorters and tabulators, and in the years that followed, mechanised accounting became a familiar part of office practice. |
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