When the pre-Christmas Powers-That-Be ran out of ideas for training the housewives of tomorrow (see, amongst others, the “A La Cart Kitchen”), someone had a bright idea: let’s train the secretaries of tomorrow! But let’s do it covertly, so that they don’t know what they’re doing. Actually manufactured by Byron International (itself a division of super-conglomerate mining corp. Dobson Park Industries), the Petite brand was a front for a range of portable toys including cash registers, sewing machines, and various pretend shop fronts which all came in suspiciously typewriter-shaped cases.