The Burlington purchased its first typewriter in 1898
for making waybills in the freight office. The report in 1899 noted
that "it was several months before the clerks were able to make as good
time on the machines as with the pen, but it is said that the experiment is now
a success".
Brings back memories of typing multi-copy legal documents and
then finding that one sheet of carbon paper was upside down! It was wonderful
when the first photocopier arrived.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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Another reason that "flimsy" was used was that, it made it easier
to make several carbon copys. I still have a train order "tin" that operators
used to make train orders in the days before they were typed. It is piece of
sheet metal the size of a train order. The operator clipped the train order
forms to it with carbon papers. There would be a sheet of carbon paper on top
and operator used a stylus to write out the order. Many operators were still
using them in the fifties.