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Remington Noiseless Portable - just landed
This arrived through the post today.
Needs a deep clean, but to my inexperienced eye seems to be doing all the things it was designed to do, but could probably do them a bit better. I intend to only use it for light work, bad poetry a speciality.
I'm surprised they got away with the name Noiseless. I suppose the Remington Somewhat Less-Noisy Portable doesn't flow off the tongue so easily...
Serial number: N73484. The original box mentions 1935.
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Re: Remington Noiseless Portable - just landed
RobMacKillop wrote:
… I'm surprised they got away with the name Noiseless. ...
You should know that Noiseless was the name of a typewriter manufacturer that had devoted itself to developing quiet typewriters. The company was taken over by Remington, and those models became know as the Remington Noiseless. I've tested a number of different typewriter models (Silent, Noiseless, Quiet, etc.) using a decibel meter, ones that promised a hushed performance and compared them to their regular counterparts, and in most cases the difference was marginal. The Remington Noiseless models were among the most effective.
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Cheers, Uwe. I was actually just reading about the Noiseless company before reading your post. I got delivery today of Anthony Casillo's book, "Typewriters", which has a few mentions of them. Lots of evolutionary dead ends in that book - fascinating stuff.
Most of the typewriter histories seem to focus on the US, as most of them are written by US citizens for US publishers - I don't have a problem with that at all, but would also like to read more about European and Japanese typewriter histories. Any suggestions? In fact, don't answer here - I'll start a new thread for that.
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Thread Starter- Glasskeyman
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Re: Remington Noiseless Portable - just landed
Check your feed rollers for flats. These noiseless machines dont clack or thwack like a corona when the platens are viable. They are beautiful typers with a refined typeface. The typebar linkage in them is more cantilever style than catapult. They have 7 feed rollers i believe last time I took one down.
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