Remington Noiseless Model 7big brother of the Noiseless Portable

Where the small Noiseless Portable is the compact machine, the Model 7 is the fuller-bodied one: a full-size paper table, a tabulator, plastic keytops, and a long horizontal return lever rather than the short vertical one. It is still a portable and comes in its own case. It runs the same noiseless mechanism, which slows the typebar and presses the slug to the paper instead of striking it, so the sound is a thump rather than a clack and the stroke lands soft. The carriage shift is on the heavy side, the build is early-1930s solid, and the machine was made from about 1931 to 1941. The same design was licensed out, so you will find it badged Remington, Remington Rand, or even Underwood. Its bigger sibling, the Model 8, took the same idea to an extra-wide carriage.