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'The Good 'Ol Days'

Jagdflieger said:
An off shoot of the typwriter industry was in WW II. The Remington-Rand typwriter company contracted to produce some very good Government Model 1911 A1 45 semi-automatic pistols for the US Military. Used 'em quite a bit until they were replaced by the Beretta M9.

I wore out a Remington manual typwriter in the 70s, but my personal Remington-Rand 1911 is still going strong and it is 65 plus years old.
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Hey Jagd --

I have a Remmington Rand 1911 as well. It belonged to my Grandfather from Australia. It's a bit loose but surprisingly still shoots quite well for it's age. Doesn't look to bad either.

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Jagdflieger said:
An off shoot of the typwriter industry was in WW II. The Remington-Rand typwriter company contracted to produce some very good Government Model 1911 A1 45 semi-automatic pistols for the US Military. Used 'em quite a bit until they were replaced by the Beretta M9.
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Um, that's a bit of backwards history. Remington existed long before they began their typewriter division in 1873...

...which was soon spun off to become a completely separate company.
1873 - E. Remington & Sons embarked on a new venture, and in September of 1873, the first Remington typewriters were produced.

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1886 - Remington sells the typewriter business. This business would later become Remington Rand, then Sperry Rand.
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http://www.remington.com/pages/our-company/company-history.aspx
 
In boot camp, I carried a 1903A3 bolt action rifle made by Remington Rand. Wish I could have kept it!

Snuffy, the only reason I took started taking typing in high school was that I had a hole in my schedule and the class was mostly girls. Like Brad said, it worked out pretty good down through the years having that skill anyway
 
Speaking of typewriters, this is hillarious! It's only 4 seconds long though, which is about as long as her job lasted I guess... :)
 
My mom and dad had one that typed cursive letters. They used it every year to type their Christmas card greetings, and it had a green ink ribbon.

Looked great!

NC
 
Willy said:
In boot camp, I carried a 1903A3 bolt action rifle made by Remington Rand. Wish I could have kept it!
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Willy, are you talking about the fake drill rifles they used? So weird you mentioned it. I have one I bought off of EBAY around 1999, and two days ago I took it to a friend of mine who is going to refinish the stock, and clean it up for me. Then I plan to finally display it on a wall, next to my "I love me" box, with my USN decorations......

I just found this on EBAY. Looks like mine:

http://cgi.ebay.com/WWII-1943-DUMMY...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item414d7bc101

Pete
 
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