In the operational manual for Fox visible desktop models, in a section towards the back which covers add-ons and other extra items you could buy, one will find that Fox offered a word counter for their machines;
Understandably, this was likely seldom purchased, and I have yet to hear of any surviving machines having one attached. However, with just a bit of quick sleuthing, I believe I've located the counter in question (or at least a very similar model), as advertised by the original manufacturer;
It seems that Veeder was the established counter-mechanism manufacturer of the age. Now, to keep an eye out for one on that ever-popular electronic bay.
