Triumph-Adler 1958 - 1970

The Grundig-Electronic-Triumph-Adler (GTA) joint sales organisation marks the practical start of the merger between Triumph and Adler.
Development, production and administration are still separate entities, although they already work in close collaboration with each other. The production programmes of Triumph and Adler are combined.

The "Factura 3" automated invoicing machine, with its electromagnetically controlled calculating device, is a big hit.
Ideal for small and medium-sized companies and unbeatable in both performance and price. The machine is equipped with a separate attachment for punch-cards so that data can be recorded during invoicing for automatic processing. The “Factura 3“ marks a shift in technology towards office computers.

The Factura 400 and the "factura 30" from Triumph/Adler are the first organisers released onto the market to have a new electronically controlled high-speed printing mechanism.
It prints numbers and symbols at a rate of 20 strokes per second, which works out to 1,200 a minute. A good stenotypist can manage 400 strokes a minute. Typewriter production reaches 500,000 units per year.

The integration of the Triumph/Adler Group within the Grundig Group is mostly complete.
The network now has around 8,200 employees and generates a turnover of 225 million marks. Triumph/Adler is the fifth-largest office machine manufacturer in the world, behind the market leaders of Olivetti/Underwood (Italy/USA), Litton (USA) and the German Olympia Werken. In 1968, the invoicing and accounting computer TA 100 comes onto the market.

The elegant "gabriele 5000", the first portable typewriter produced in Germany, causes a sensation and is a big commercial success.
Since Grundig intends to enter the colour television industry, it sells Triumph/Adler to the US Litton Group. A surge in investment in its manufacturing capacity and the development of office computers sees Triumph/Adler set the course for the coming decade.