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Line spacing is available in half line space increments from one to three line spaces, as is very typical of European machines. The control arrangement on the carriage is convenient and sensible the small machined block that is the setting device for the line space mechanism is a great touch, and very easy to use. The action of the machine is very sturdy feeling, with a feel of high key resistance and fairly rapid type bar return. Item: How many machines have return levers on BOTH sides Only the Demountable comes to mind immediately - and in that example, they are not identical since the left side lever is practically duplicative of that found on the Harris Visible, all models, and Rex Visible, all models. We note that most Continental standard machines seem to have much shorter return levers that dont drop down over the front of the machine as to the levers on this example this lever placement took some getting used to but it seems that when familiar it might allow higher speed since the total hand travel to return the carriage is less than it would have been with the older style short levers. The machine has 45 keys typing 90 characters the keyboard includes a numeral 1, an exclamation point, a 1 symbol for fractional numerators, diacritical and German letters and a standard English layout for the alphabet.Ĭarriage release, paper release and line space return levers are all duplicated on both sides of the carriage on this machine, which is very handy. This machine might properly be called the Continental Standard A since there is a decal letter A on the paper table, although this might just be the carriage width. I wanted it all the more when it became available as it had an English keyboard (and this is a factory keyboard, not a re-solder job.) Ive just run a full sheet of paper through it at various speeds and examined it overall, and here are the details. Continental Standard Typwriter Full Sheet Of Many pre-war machines from Germany werent so lucky- the war was hard on typewriter production and damaged machines were often patched up and made to soldier on.
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Other marques continued to fill the void of typewriter production post-war the Continental essentially did not (although the Communists appear to have restarted the standard machine see our European Typewriter Project page on the Continentals.) My example shown in the photo is from 1938 and is in fine condition.
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Hostilities curtailed production the tooling for the Silenta, according to Beeching, went off to Russia and disappeared while that for the portables went to Belgium where the machines were built briefly and badly. Continental Standard Typwriter Full Sheet Of.
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