1911 Bennett typewriter
The Bennett typewriter is likely the rarest typewriter I own. It is the smallest typewriter ever made with a full keyboard and is about the same size as a wireless computer keyboard. This typewriter succeeded the Junior typewriter, a similar looking typewriter, introduced in 1906, which used ink rollers and was less reliable. The Bennett uses a ribbon which is slightly smaller than a standard half inch typewriter ribbon. To replace it with a newly inked typewriter ribbon from eBay, I had to wrap it around a piece of cardboard and cut it so it was the correct size. The Bennett uses an interchangeable type element, similar to a Blickensderfer, which decreases the mechanism’s size substantially compared to a typebar - based typewriter. It has no drawband, instead using a pawl activated by a keypress, to advance the carriage. When I got it, it could not print the correct characters. I had to adjust 2 elliptical washers, which to fixed this problem.
