I got this typewriter for Clarkson for her birthday. It is a quite fantastic device.

It also happens to be the first thing I have bothered to win at auction at ebay for the paltry sum of £12 + £10 p&p. This is pretty good value since they can go for quite a lot – up to £300 in some cases. The age of this particular model is tricky to determine. The manual that came with it was photocopied from the original and the way that it is written does not suggest it is from the 50′s. It seems like this particular design of typewriter has been in production for quite some time. They even still make them in China apparently.

Not quite sure what is going to be done with it yet. I would quite like to take it to work in place of my laptop and type emails and place them on people’s desks. I suspect this may just get me in trouble rather than respect for my retro attitude. Apart from anything else it is a little noisey – at least it might drown out the sound of irritating mobile phones going off.

Adler Tippa S Typewriter, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.