In 1973 it was donated to Birmingham's Museum of Science and Industry and was on show for 24 years until 1997 when the museum closed and the machine was dismantled and put into storage.
More than 50% of the polling stations were audited after they closed, double-checking their machine-printed tally reports by comparing them with the printed votes placed in the ballot boxes.
Now that the Lubrizol deal is closed, perhaps Buffett wants to slow his takeover machine until he can get a better grasp of how severe the contraction in the global economy will be.