1927 Adler 7 #341561
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Paolo Dal Chiele (pdcox)
Created: 01-26-2025 at 01:43PM
Last Edit: 02-23-2025 at 10:53AM
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Description:
Update 2:
Work finished or almost.
The platen is blocked because of the rust that has attacked the right side of the carriage in particular, and to completely dismantle the side of the carriage I have to remove the pressure pins that fix the transverse axe of the paper release mechanism : a torch and a press are needed, and so I have to go to a mechanical workshop.
For the rest, the machine is now in order and working.
A few words about the machine. As mentioned, it is a 1927 wide-carriage machine with an original Romanian keyboard. Romania's relationship with Adler typewriters has been very particular, as evidenced by the famous telegram from Queen Elizabeth dated August 26, 1909 (photos 41 and 42).
The inventory number that is still legible on the back of the machine (photo 38) confirms that it was purchased by some public institution, which is perfectly consistent with the model being intended for a very specific use.
Furthermore, as confirmed by the numerous repairs to the keyboard and the type rod guide, the machine was subjected to very intense use and for a seemingly very long period.
The cover has been damaged over time. Two series of graffiti can be seen: one series seems to have been made by a child who wrote two names with shallow and thin incisions on the lower part of the cover. Much deeper and more numerous are the incisions that were made in the area where the Adler logo, the eagle with the wheel, used to appear. The number, regularity and depth of these incisions exclude that they are the product of an accidental event, and the most plausible hypothesis is that they were made intentionally precisely to erase the logo.
Why?
The most likely hypothesis is that the removal of the Adler logo was done by someone who wanted to eliminate a symbol deemed hostile or inappropriate in a public institution, and this may have happened after the coup d'état of June 1944, the breaking of the alliance with Germany and the beginning of military collaboration with the Soviet Union.
A typewriter therefore that bears the signs of history on its body…
Update 1
Typewriter finished.
Conservative.
Dismantling, cleaning, removal of rust, polishing and protection.
Replacement of parts reduced to the bare minimum and only where necessary to ensure funtionality.
Carriage will follow.
A Model 7 breitwagen in pretty miserable conditions but after years (decades?) of abuse is now in safe hands.
Large carriage are unusual today even if Adler offered the Model 7 with 7 different carriage widths; this is the wider option available and was very expensive, considering the cost of the 60 cm carriage alone was 200 RM while the cost of a Model 7 with regular 30 cm carriage was 370 DM.
I will try to make it working again, removing rust and restoring the mechanics but keeping aesthetically the typewriter as it is, with possibly no repainting or fake decals.
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Hunter: Paolo Dal Chiele (pdcox)
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