About a month ago I acquired
this typewriter because it looked different.
Saw it on Craig’s List, purchased it, brought it home and put it on the
shelf without even looking at it as a lot was going on at the time.
Pulled it down off
the shelf this morning for the first time since and snapped some images of it
(Sorry about the quality of the images, used by iPhone & it does not
produce the widest dynamic range…..) For
your consideration is a Remington Standard No. 7.
This is my first dealing with this old a Remington.
The http://typewriterdatabase.com/ lists
this particular machine (#192249) as manufactured in 1898.
Have not fully
checked for functionality although I can say that the platen does
not move when the space bar is depressed. Also, simple to see that the rollers and
platen are in very poor shape. I also
assume there should be a paper rest behind the platen. May decide that without the paper rest it would
look to awkward and will start a refurbish?
Before I do anything,
I want to obtain an operators manual, hopefully even a copy of a service manual,
and a few images of one in serviceable shape for comparison. Not sure I even know how everything is
supposed to work on this machine.
The platen
flips? There are two images below that
show the platen in the two positions.
Plus, there are some pulleys on the carrier that have nothing running
through them, which I suppose is a problem.
Hope you enjoy the
images. Now to submit some questions on
the Typewriter forum. More to come……….
Definitions:
Remington Standard No. 7: Remington began production of this model in 1896 and ran through 1914. Apparently manufactured mainly for the British market.
