20th November 2012
Today the last type-writer to be manufactured in Britain came off the assembly line – and can you guess where it’s going?
Straight into a museum.
Irony of ironies!
Ever since the 18th century in Britain inventors had devised various kinds of «writing machines»
It wasn’t until Remington, then a manufacturer of sewing machines, signed an agreement with a patent holder in the 1870s that the Sholes and Glidden Type-writer was born, coining the name and the QWERTY layout that would prove so universal.
I shall miss the tap-tap-tappedy-tap-click-whirr-zing of a busy office
The plonk-plonk of the crypto novelist
In the attic
Typing out his unpublished
Work of genius
I shall miss the Dear Sir
Yours faithfully
And the Dear Mr. Jones
Yours sincerely
That comfortable pedant’s
Paradise of grammatical
Orthographical
Orthodoxy.
It’s the End of an Era
LAST TYPE-WRITER MADE IN BRITAIN
notesfromthewaitingroom 
Comments on: "The last type-writer" (4)
It certainly is the end of an era and I shall miss it too!
When I was at college learning shorthand and typing, we had to type in tune to the William Tell music, then at the end of the line of music there would be a booming voice on the record shouting “CARRIAGE RETURN” !! And then it would start all over again. Thirty carriages all returning at once! Hilarious now I think about it.
My very favourite typewriter was the Imperial 66, a wonderful machine! Neverput a finger wrong – well not often anyway! Lol.
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Yup, I learnt to type in Rotterdam in 1968, 1 x man [boy] 45 gorgeous women [girls] I will never forget!!!
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i used to work on a typewriter,
I was horrible and so was it! thank god they’ve passed on!
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