Never enough knowledge
I bought this Triumph Tippa, complete with case and instruction manual, for £20 from a charity shop. It worked ‘straight out of the box’ as it needed minimal attention apart from cleaning the keys, buying a new ribbon and making the missing locking plate to hold the keys in place when transported. I use it…
I came across in an antique shop a partly-used 1950’s or so marquetry kit for creating a quite charming image of a village street and houses entitled ‘Sleepy Cornwall’. I decided to fork out £5 to buy it and complete what someone had started – perhaps it was a child’s Christmas or birthday gift and…
Since the book ‘Effective Document and Data Management’ was published in 2016, some of the online references have relocated or disappeared. An updated bibliography containing new or revised entries is available here (view post to see link)
The typewriter with its case, original dust cover and instructions was bought at auction. The paperwork supplied showed it had been owned by a lady in Surbiton and serviced in January 1981 and 1982 by a local typewriter maintenance company ‘Surbiton Typewriters’, 10 Winthrop House, Surbiton. According to its serial number, BR 948893, it was…
The Underwood Noiseless Portable, a rebranded version of the Remington Noiseless Portable, was a popular model of portable typewriter through the 1930s. The attractive physical appearance of the Noiseless Portable echoes the streamlined Art Deco contours favoured by designers in the 1920s and 1930s and the resulting Noiseless Portable is considered by many collectors to…