•The pneumatic Auto-typist was popular right into the '60s, and was used well into the 1970s, I believe. It used a rotary pump like a reproducing piano, but the body was cast metal. The 4 bellows are leather covered. These are occasionally available today and make good pumps for build-ups. The main ...

•In response to Rick Inzero's comment regarding the Auto-typist: For years they were the best thing on the market. The roll frame and much of the equipment was the same as some of that used in coin pianos. In fact, it is my understanding that one of the coin piano companies actually made the Auto-Ty...

•There were some Auto-typists that used "nickelodeon" size rolls. Does anyone know if the Auto-typist used a standard 11-1/4" roll? Did they use six to the inch perforations? Paul Manganaro [ At http://www.officemuseum.com/typewriters_office_special.htm : [ "The Auto-Typist, which was introduced in ...

•Many years ago when I worked for a former Ampico employee. About 1957, he presented me with a mysterious roll. He said the roll came from Eastman Kodak in Rochester. He was an expert on pneumatic systems, and therefore was summoned to Kodak to repair a machine which typed letters via a standard siz...

•The American Automatic Typewriter Co., owned by Otto Schulz of Chicago's M. Schulz piano company, began building the Auto-typist in 1932. This interesting machine had a roll-operated console which could be connected to one or many slave units. Each slave unit had a pneumatic action with pull-down w...

•This note was sent to me by Craig Brougher. - - - From: crb@idir.net (Craig Brougher) To: mortier@netreach.net, haldavis@modempool.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 07:33:44 -0500 Subject: Auto-typist pumps Hi fellows, Just saw your suggestion about Auto-typist rotary pumps. I've used them and love them...

•I remember seeing this very apparatus in a friend's home about 15 years ago. It did just as described. A master roll was typed/cut, and errors were corrected much like a piano roll master would be repaired/corrected. I recall it was a very successful business, and they made 20 copies at a time. It ...

•There is not much that I can add to Art Reblitz's account of the Auto-typist and Otto Schulz. I was the Auto-typist dealer here in San Antonio from the early 1970's until the company went out of business. The Auto-typist could be used with almost any make of typewriter. When you ordered a new machi...

•> ... and now revealed is the typewriter-controlling roll! > > "The automatic typewriter is not an electric typewriter; > it is pneumatic. The Auto-Typist used a four-bellows rotary pump similar in operation to an Ampico upright or Coinola pump, save that the manifold in the Auto-Typist pump is cas...

•> At least one Auto-Typist pump is providing vacuum for an automatic > instrument: Fresno, California organ man Tom DeLay installed one in > his 3-rank Photoplayer. Auto-typist pumps were also used in Berry Wood instruments. The orchestrions with pipes in fact used two separate pumps, one for press...

•Hello all, I am rather curious about the sudden interest in the Auto-Typist typewriter in the last two postings. Could someone enlighten me? Many thanks, Paul Bell [ See http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/A/auto_typist.html [ -- Robbie

•Hello from occasionally sunny Seattle! I found the recent postings about the Auto-Typist to be of interest for two reasons. The first is that when I was in my early teens in Chicago in the 1970s, I rode the bus (and occasionally cajoled a ride from my parents) around the city looking for forgotten ...

•I don't know if anyone pointed this out before, but there is a motion picture demonstration of the Auto-Typist starting in the 12th minute at http://archive.org/details/modern_business_machines_for_writing Lee Rothrock [ I found the beginning of the Auto-Typist segment at this URL: [ http://archive...

•A little known use of the Auto-Typist roll frame is the heart of a roll scanner. The dominant feature is its fat take-up spool, not unlike that of most any nickelodeon or orchestrion. My roll scanner started out in life as an Auto-Typist roll frame; see how I adapted it at http://members.shaw.ca/sm...

•Thanks to the MMD readers who have already responded, we have the pictures of Auto-Typist pumps that we wanted for our research at Mechanical Music Press. Comparison to photos of National Automatic Music roll-changer pianos (and Welte pipe organs), and Berry-Wood pianos, it's obvious that none of t...

•The Auto-Typist rotary pump is precisely the one used on the Welte Philharmonic Musicalle 10-roll automatic player system. The only change is an open sheave or pulley was used on those rather than the solid one. Doug L. Bullock http://thepianoworld.com/

•Thanks again to the many MMD readers who have kindly sent or posted photos of Auto-Typist pumps. Detailed photos show that although Auto-Typist and National roll-changing coin piano pumps have somewhat different main castings for the hollow frame, the brackets that connect the rubberized canvas str...

•Hello, I have available many parts from Auto typist and Monroebot typing machines. Please let me know if you are in need of any parts for them or a complete Auto typist. Thank you. James Williams ampicojim@netscape.net.geentroep

•Would anyone happen to have an Auto-Typist typewriter in their boneyard they would consider selling? Actually, I really only need the "reader" portion of the system, i.e., the roll transport frame and tracker bar. Would settle for the (5-to-the-inch) tracker bar only if that's all you have. Thanks ...

•Wanted: Auto-typist vacuum pump, electric motor also for this pump. James Williams tel.: 1-801-394-7263