Wednesday, February 8, 2017

My First Typewriter for the Year


It arrived in a sea of packing peanuts.

Layered with cardboard and wrapped carefully, it found itself suddenly in the land of pine trees and potatoes.

And now, with much excitement, I can scratch it off my list of "Most Wanted Typewriters".


Behold, the "Tiger Without A Roar"!






The Noiseless Portable, manufactured by the Noiseless Typewriter Company, is a marvel of engineering. I have been wanting one for quite some time, and finally was able to get this one. It has a broken drawband and a few other small issues that I will need to contend with, alongside getting it cleaned up, but once all is said and done. I can already be guaranteed of a good ol' typing time, no matter the time of day or night.

Stay tuned for a post detailing every last little bit of this unique portable.

4 comments:

  1. Beautiful typewriter.
    Is that an aluminum platen for stencils? There is an aluminum stencil cutting platen mentioned in one of my Remington Noiseless Typewriter manuals. I do not recall if it is the Model 1 or Model 7.

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    1. On any other machine a metal platen would certainly help with stencils. On this machine, because of the design, I imagine trying to cut stencils is near impossible. The noiseless design makes it so that the typebar just barely hits the platen with any force at all, so a stencil sheet would probably defeat any momentum the typebar had with ease.

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  2. I find it interesting that the ribbon spools are just like those on the 1950's Remingtons. I wonder if this is where that design started.

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    1. It is, actually. Remington bought the Noiseless Typewriter Company around 1930 i think

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