Model 6300 Auto-typist automated typewriter, c.1950. This is an electric version of the earlier pre-Second World War Autotypists, which worked in a similar manner albeit one powered by an electric motor. The Auto-typists is device like a Pianola with an electric motor driving a bank of bellows in a star-shape frame connected to smaller bellows in turn to a pianola roll. The Auto-typist could load preformatted paragraphs and these would typed out automatically and at full speed on an electric typewriter, which could be removed from the system and used manually as well. Any model of electric typewriter could be connected to the Auto-typists.

The Autotypist was an automatic typewriter which was first introduced commercially c.1924 in the USA. About 200 Autotypists of later design were installed in the UK by the British Equipment Company Limited, South Kensington, London. The device remained in use until the 1960s and possibly beyond.

Early Auto-typists used reels of paper type and pneumatic system to load automated paragraphs but, by the 1950s, newer models were introduced - the 5600 and 6300 series - which had an electric motor and which could also connect to the newer electric models of typewriters. The model 5600 series could store and load up to 30 different pre-formatted and pre-written paragraphs.

These new electric Auto-typists had "push button" selection and to which any model of electric typewriter could be connected or disconnected from the newer model of Auto-typist.