T.A.R.D.I.S. Fuel - A Guest Post

Goldurnit, blogger doesn't work the way I expected it to. I guess you have to click the images to actually read 'm.

Separated at Birth?

Guest typecast by Richard P.

An incurable itch...

A service label for the 21st Century?

Cacoethes Scribendi 

If all the trees in all the woods were men;
And each and every blade of grass a pen;
If every leaf on every shrub and tree
Turned to a sheet of foolscap; every sea
Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes
Had nothing else to do but act as scribes,
And for ten thousand ages, day and night,
The human race should write, and write, and write,
Till all the pens and paper were used up,
And the huge inkstand was an empty cup,
Still would the scribblers clustered round its brink
Call for more pens, more paper, and more ink.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Eccentricity

Anyone passing through Oxford? Not sure what's eccentric about typewriters, but the Eccentricity Exhibition promises a few and it might be worth a look at some 'museum pieces' before it closes.  If I get to see it, I'll post some photos.

Full museum collection listed here.

Bryan S Ryan

A follow-up on a mission of Mike Clemens' about extinct and extant typewriter dealers and repair shops.

Bryan S Ryan, that's what the silver label on the paper table of my 1933 black Underwod Portable reads. Some Googling and an e-mail later, the mystery is uncovered. Present director of Bryan S Ryan is Adrienne Prendergast who replied: 

Hi Rob,

Bryan S Ryan was established in 1948. However, we would have been a major supplier of Typewriters and Service in those years and it is likely that this is a service sticker that we placed on it.

There might be more follow-up from her colleague of long standing at some time, but for now, Mike can put Dublin on the map!