Autotypist c. 1936 (type-bar, front strike). The Autotypist comprised of: a machine quite like a typewriter which punched holes in a reel of papers and a regular typewriter with both typewriters fixed on the opposite sides of a desk. Standard paragraphs were punched onto reels of papers by the first machine. Then the typist pressed buttons corresponding with the particular paragraphs they required to be typed on the regular typewriter. When the typist pressed the start button, the appropriate paragraph was typed on the regular typewriter. The keys of the regular typewriter were operated by air valves which resolved the holes on the relevant reel(s) of punched paper into the relevant paragraphs. The machine could also be stopped for the typist to enter a non-standard paragraph and then restarted. Autotypist automatic typewriter, c. 1936 1936
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. Model 6300 Auto-typist automated typewriter 1950