soemtron.org visit Sömmerda, September 2009

September 2009
We recently drove out to Germany to pay a visit to the Historisch-technisches Museum in Sömmerda - website. Frau Speiser (museum curator) kindly gave us a guided tour of the museum, and also the non public archive building a short distance away. Mainly covering local history and peoples (Nicolaus von Dreyse) as you might expect, this excellent museum also has a fledgling technical section with exhibits from more recent times when the various Soemtron brands and the V.E.B. Büromaschinenwerk Sömmerda cooperative were in full production. Supported by the local community and government this museum is well worth a visit, cannot be praised highly enough, and deserves all the support they can get.

We met with a group of past employees from the Soemtron factory (photos below) to discussed the Soemtron range of machines and told them how we became involved, showing them this website. A short while later during the tour of the archive, and quite out of the blue, we received a bit of a shock, an offer of a Soemtron 224 !. Having thought that with the very small production run of 224's (<526), the museum's machine was the only one left, how wrong we were!, there were two more in a private collection!. The unexpected and gracious offer of this 224 completes our collection of Soemtron machines - 220 - 222 - 224, and as far as we know is the only complete collection outside that of the museum in Sömmerda. Many, many thanks must go to the gentleman who offered us the 224 from his own collection, and to the many interested people at the Museum. This just confirms our thoughts on the visit of the friendly, eager, courteous and helpful reception we received from the people of Sömmerda.

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Soemtron 434	Soemtron 434	Museum group	Museum group	Museum building
Museum building	Industrial area model	Industrial area model	Industrial area model	Industrial area model
Industrial area model	Soemtron 224	Soemtron 224	Soemtron 224	Soemtron 224
Soemtron 224	Soemtron 224	Soemtron 224	224 printer	224 printer
224 printer	224 printer	224 printer	224 printer	Soemtron 224 rear
Soemtron 224 rear	224 printer mech	Reassembly of 224	Reassembly of 224	Reassembly of 224
Reassembly of 224	These thirty one images © 2009 www.soemtron.org

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Museum group	Museum group			These four images © 2009 Historisch-technisches Museum, Sömmerda

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				Museum group
	These twenty one images © 2009 Bernard Green

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