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 Underwood Noiseless 77 - 621423 (1933)

Underwood Noiseless 77 – 621423 (1933)

My Underwood Noiseless 77 is serial number 621423 and is from 1933 – only two years after Remington began to make them for Underwood. When I found this typewriter, it had obviously been in a wet place – a basement perhaps? The leatherette on the case is pulling away in many places.  The typewriter itself [...]

1939 Remington

1939 Remington “Noisy Noiseless”

Remington made this model using a modified version of the noiseless mechanism. The mechanism looks at first glance like a regular noiseless machine, but when using it, the clatter from the typebars striking the platen is obvious.  The mechanism is adjusted for the typebars to strike like a normal typewriter does – the weights that [...]