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01-8-2024 14:14:19  #11


Re: Hermes 2000 (12st Gen., 1937)

Excellent!  Well done with the bell.

 

04-8-2024 10:32:09  #12


Re: Hermes 2000 (12st Gen., 1937)

Duna,

You know you cannot come here, talk about a great typewriter, and not show us any photos of your machine... LOL

Like the guys in the photo, below, will tell you...
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13-8-2024 17:45:46  #13


Re: Hermes 2000 (12st Gen., 1937)

yeah you are right I know.  I have the pictures but ... I tried many times to insert pictures in posts on these fora but to no avail. I followed the instructions given (process is quite simple after all)  but for some reason the link created inside the published post   is always broken. Maybe the free services I use to upload pictures are not palatable by the 'boardhost' webservers .  I have a Flickr account as well but cannot figure  how to 'extract' url of pictures published there (used to be possible, but not anymore, it appears).

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14-8-2024 12:11:07  #14


Re: Hermes 2000 (12st Gen., 1937)

I use this photo-sharing site :  https://postimages.org

Once you have saved an image, you have a choice to "copy" your photo as a "direct link" and then you cut & paste it your open dialogue box by clicking on the "image icon an dropping it in.
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14-8-2024 18:10:10  #15


Re: Hermes 2000 (12st Gen., 1937)


Here the margin setting tabs are still under a cleverly designed metal black cover


Here they are shown  visible under the open cover,   revealing  they are almost identical to those on the well-known Hermes Baby. Very nice.
 

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14-8-2024 20:38:36  #16


Re: Hermes 2000 (12st Gen., 1937)

Hi Duna,

My Swedish Halda P made in 1955 has a similar set-up for its "hidden" margin stops.
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15-8-2024 15:30:48  #17


Re: Hermes 2000 (12st Gen., 1937)

oh my, a Halda typewriter. They are somehow  well known in Italy as Lagomarsino rebadged and sold on the Italian market Addo machines (adders, the Totalia was a rebadged Addo X adder machine) under the brand Lagomarsino, who was a serious competitor in this niche for market leader Olivetti. They also sold Halda typewriters, mainly standards afaik, but also portables. This example is gorgeous. 
I have  been always curious, as precious little is written about these well engineered Swedish machines: are these P model ,  carriage shift or basket shift?
 

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15-8-2024 17:43:30  #18


Re: Hermes 2000 (12st Gen., 1937)

Hi Duna,

My Halda P is a basket-shifter.  Same with the Facit/ADDO typewriters I have in my collection.
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