Talk:Tonawanda Kardex Lumbermen

Which Kardex?

I assume the "Kardex" comes from American Kardex, which became Rand Kardex, Remington Rand, Sperry Rand, Sperry, and Unisys. I assume this because James Rand, Jr. was born in Tonawanda so I assume that's where his fathers (and then his) businesses were located. And I put this in the article.

However, there's another Kardex, founded in 1898 in Marietta, Ohio (see here and they're old enough to have been the sponsor and here where they say "Kardex Company" rather than "American Kardex", and especially here where they say "the Kardex — named after an office product company still in existence in Ohio" they seem to think that it's that Kardex that sponsored the team.

However, here they say "The team was created in 1921 by Rand Kardex, a company that eventually merged into Remington Rand six years later". That's not actually right, according to James Rand, Jr. Rand Kardex only came into existence in 1925 when Rand Jr. bought his father's company (Rand Ledger) and merged then under the name Rand Kardex. But the point is, American Kardex.

There's more. I didn't check. None of these are reliable sources. It says here that Tonawanda being Rand's birthplace is too much of a coincidence, and it's Rand's Kardex that was the sponsor. Herostratus (talk) 00:36, 11 September 2014 (UTC)