Adler 7 typewriter (1909)

Adler company was founded by the son of a mechanic, who started to build typewriters in the beginning of last century, so it’s a very old company.

The typewriter has a pleasant design, with a gold decoration on the cover, with the machine name, and the manufacturer's name. In the same years, "Adler" company built bicycles, and, if you look at the Adler logo, there is the wheel of a bicycle.

Also, since there was no shop selling office machines, "Adler" initially sold these typewriters through their bike dealers. This "Adler" has an Italian keyboard layout, it was sold in Italy, and here there is a little plate with the Italian reseller of the "Adler" typewriters, Carlo Glockner, Milano is the city, and this line means general representative for Italy.

Adler built typewriters and office devices for all the past century, and also produced cars, motorcycles, airplane engines, etc.

Then became “Triumph Adler”, and finally they sold to Olivetti the company.

This typewriter survived for more than 100 years, but it has a very strong iron body, and it’s very heavy, so it’s not strange. The "Adler 7" was famous for its robustness and reliability. The machine weighed about 11 kg.

I find it interesting because the design of this typewriter and his layout follow a different concept than the current standard. It was the dawn of typewriters, and no common standard had yet been defined.

It has many particularities, for example it has 3 characters on every typing bar. So it has 2 shift for uppercase and lowercase. And to prevent theft, it has the serial number printed on many internal parts.

If you want how it's used, and other particularities, just look at the video!

And here, a short video with 4 Adler 7.