Electronic data processing
Electronic data processing (EDP) or business information processing can refer to the use of automated methods to process commercial data. Typically, this uses relatively simple, repetitive activities to process large volumes of similar information. For example: stock updates applied to an inventory, banking transactions applied to account and customer master files, booking and ticketing transactions to an airline's reservation system, billing for utility services. The modifier "electronic" or "automatic" was used with "data processing" (DP), especially c. 1960, to distinguish human clerical data processing from that done by computer.
A punched card from the mid-twentieth century.
1967 letter by the Midland Bank to a customer, on the introduction of electronic data processing
Electronic data processing in the Volkswagen factory Wolfsburg, 1973
Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836. It expanded in the Midlands, absorbing many local banks, and merged with the Central Bank of London Ltd. in 1891, becoming the London City and Midland Bank.
Former head office at 27 Poultry, designed in 1924 by Edwin Lutyens and built in stages until 1939
Midland Bank's head office banking hall at 27 Poultry, built in the late 1920s
Former Threadneedle Street head office of The City Bank, which became London City and Midland Bank
The Lutyens-designed 100 King Street, Manchester
