Hi Again Ted
Your picture of the keyboard clearly shows both a figure 1 and a slashed zero. This points strongly towards a Morse typewriter. The 7-digit serial number beginning with 62- indicates 1947, the rimmed Bakelite letter keys and green function keys are in keeping with this model year range. From what I understand, portable units were usually used on ships for recording morse messages. As your unit is definitely not a portable, it may have been a naval or military base unit, or a telegraph writer.
If you can get your hands on a sheet of carbon paper, an acceptable type sample can be generated using carbon paper and plain white paper together leaving the bichrome selector on stencil. If the type slugs cut through the carbon paper, sandwich the carbon between 2 sheets of paper. Hope this points you in the right direction,
Sky
We humans go through many computers in our lives, but in their lives, typewriters go through many of us.
In that way, they’re like violins, like ancestral swords. So I use mine with honor and treat them with respect.
I try to leave them in better condition than I met them. I am not their first user, nor will I be their last.
Frederic S. Durbin. (Typewriter mania and the modern writer)
