Hi Dyan, you certainly are right about people thinking that shorthand is a foreign language! I can still do it, and it comes in handy when I go family history group and can write down everything that we are being taught so much quicker than by longhand. Did Pitmans too, but there was also another, Greggs I think? Also remember the Gestetners. Worked for the Manager of the Spares Department at the old BSA (George Holden) and use to have to do the skins and run them off for the motorcyle parts when we did the stock check, and for sending them to the suppliers. You use to have to either take off the ribbon (old sit up and beg typewriters) or you had a switch you could use. If you may a typing error you had to put a ruler behind the top skin and use a bright pink ink to cover the mistake and then type over again. You had to be careful when you loaded the machine to print so that it didn't crease when you started to run off. I was luck that I had an electric printer, some had a handle to turn by hand. Mind you I think we were more aware of being accurate in typing, spelling and punctuation, and had a good speed.
Good old file 13, still use the phrase, even though I've been retire for coming up to 3 years now.
Good to hear from you.
Good old file 13, still use the phrase, even though I've been retire for coming up to 3 years now.
Good to hear from you.