When a business name contains;
Obvious initials, or
An obvious acronym, or
A series of letters, characters or numerals not amounting to a word, then:
No space should separate any such initials, acronym letter, character or numeral (or combinations thereof) from an adjacent initial, letter character or numeral. A space should separate such initial, acronym, letter, character or numeral (or series thereof) from a word.
The indexer should use reasonable judgment considering the spacing of the name as presented to determine if a space should follow a series of characters so as to separate the series as a separate word.
Basically this provides that initials or other characters not amounting to words should not be separated by spaces. A space should separate any such character or string of characters from the next word.
Name presented: C. C. Magnum, Inc.
Would be indexed as:
CC MAGNUM INC
Name presented: A. James Smith, Inc.
Would be indexed as:
A JAMES SMITH INC
Name presented: A. & E. Associates
Would be indexed as:
A&E ASSOCIATES
Name presented: The G A Boosters Club, Inc.
Would be indexed as:
GA BOOSTERS CLUB INC
Name presented: AT&T
Would be indexed as:
AT&T
Name presented: A T & T
Would be indexed as:
AT&T
Name Presented: Bar B Q House, Inc.
Would be indexed as:
BARBQ HOUSE INC
Name presented: N A T O Suppliers, Inc.
Would be indexed as:
NATO SUPPLIERS INC
Name presented: A 1 Auto Sales
Would be indexed as:
A1 AUTO SALES
Name presented: A-1 Auto Sales
Would be indexed as:
A1 AUTO SALES
Name presented: A1 And Aachen Plumbing
Would be indexed as:
A1 & AACHEN PLUMBING
Name presented: 2 4 T Brunch Club
Would be indexed as:
24T BRUNCH CLUB
Name presented: A1 and Ernie’s Auto Sales
Would be indexed as:
A1 & ERNIES AUTO SALES