I sold Vari-Typers in Australia between 1965 and 1970 primarily to drafting departments and consulting engineers to replace hand lettering on drawings. Also sold a few to printers for cold type text work for lithographic offset printing. Also sold the Headliner phototype unit that produced strips of Headline type up 72 points in size. With the above two units a printer could produce many types of forms and brouchures.

In the late 1970's and early 1980's, I worked for a government agency on Kelly AFB in Texas. We used the varityper to create government forms. We designed form with hand drawn lines, then used the verityper to create the text. It was a very interesting and primitive way to design forms. After that we used a Wang Computer. Now of course anyone can create a form; but in the earlier days, it seemed to be very creative but cumbersome.

I believe I was one of the first operators of the Vari-Typer in the UK. Being sent to London for training (a big deal then).Producing copy of all sorts of forms with ruling and lettering for Wilts. United Dairies, Trowbridge, Wiltshire in the late 50s. for the in-house printing Department, where i met my future husband now married 56years tomorow (2019).

My mother, Sarah E Bronson née Caraway who will be 98 in a few days, worked for Duncan Field in San Antonio in 1942. She typed on a Vari-Typer for the government during the war. She later taught others to type on it. She enjoyed seeing this article very much. She loved sharing it with me. Thank you.

During the 1955 September to June school year at Purdue University, I was hired by Dr. and Mrs. Wright, Minister of the Presbyterian Church located on the edge of Purdue's campus, to type his weekly services on the Vari-Typer Typewriter, and then mail them to his many followers who were past (and current) students at Purdue during the 1950's. I worked closely with both Dr. and Mrs. Wright to type his sermons each week and send off the mailings which numbered in the hundreds. It was a delightful and challenging job, but I cherish the warm memories of my associations with these two kind, and well respected folks. My husband graduated from the EE School at Purdue in the spring of 1956, and upon graduation we moved to California. I kept in contact with them for many years.

Many years ago my uncle Charles Brock Tabb worked for Ralph C. Coxhead Corporation here in Richmond VA. and brought home one for us to look at. I guess that it really interest me because later in life I repaired IBM Selectrics for two different businesses.