History of the Typewriter

-64 — laid down, and arrangements were taken to place the machine on the market in this country. It fed paper nine inches wide, with a writing line of seventy-two characters , it had the universal keyboard, with forty-two keys, governing eighty- four characters. It was well and substantially made, and Fig. 49 certainly capable of doing its work. For some reason or other, the machine did not secure a foothold in Great Britain, and was, after a time, withdrawn from the English market. It still has a following, however, on the European continent, and we are given to understand that at some future time, -it will probably be launched in this country again. The Fox Typewriter. Here again we have a machine which, although differing more widely from the No. 2 Remington than either of the foregoing, may yet be regarded as a development thereof. It was placed on the American market some seven or eight years ago, and in the early part of 1903 steps were taken to plant it in this country. A very large and extensive estab- lishment was taken in a most out-of-the-way place for a typewriter concern, namely, the Westminster Bridge Road, London, S.E. The agency, calling itself the Fox Typewriter Co., was a selling agency, under the control of a gentleman who had had a most extensive connection with typewriters and had met with a great amount of success in placing the Fox throughout India. However, it soon disappeared from view. The headquarters of the manufacturing concern are