It All Ends Tomorrow

Typewriter Babble

Just noticed I mis-spelled hand.

Blog post without photos?  I thought I'd include a few photos of the canals that flow through the neighborhood.  Now es ist zeit Bier und eine Bratwurst oder zwei.  Nicht Deutsch, Pennsylvania Dutch (if I remembered how to write in it).

Facit TP1 Techno Pica

This is a card that can stand for practice.

The center type slugs

This is the mystery CSA typeface from my earlier post (4 Feb.) showing type slugs only.  Typing action is perhaps the smoothest of all of my machines so far.  This has the kind of feel that I could probably use all day and not tire.  It has touch control, a tabulator, 1, 2, and 3 line spacing as well as variable.  The platen and pressure rollers are in very good condition and if it were not for the covering in nicotine stains and smoke stink this machine would have been posted several weeks ago.  This may turn out to be my favorite machine.  I plan on putting one of my treated ribbons in it.

I did not get the hood for the keys or the cover, but I did get the manual and a typing chart with the typewriter.  The typing chart is posted at its original size if you click and save the image to have one of your own.

Robert Messenger has much more detail on this fine and somewhat rare (at least what I can find, not much on line and very few on Ebay or anywhere else) in the USA (and maybe elsewhere).

Here is a link to Robert's review of the TP1:
The Prince of Typewriters