From: "Cthulhu Fatagn" <cthulhufatagn@...>

> Further to Mike's posting below, I just spotted a Hemmi 253 (the one

with

> the blue plastic cursor and blue-toned middle-slider) in the

seventies TV

> sci-fi series 'Space 1999' first season's last episode titled

"Testament of

> Arkadia".

If it has a cursor with blue top and bottom pieces and a blue middle
slider, it is the P261 (I am looking at a MIB specimen to verify
this).

I can't find a 253 in my list, but the _P253_ (Hemmi plastic slide
rules tended to have model numbers prefixed by P), of which I have
two, is a Hemmi Vectolog. It has a cursor with light-green upper and
lower pieces, but its middle slider is the normal white version.

Bill Lise @ Tokyo getting ready to be hit by a typhoon

PS: A trip to a used book store here in Tokyo recently yielded me two
books by published by Hemmi, one in 1947 and one in 1937. The earlier
book is chock full of pictures of Hemmi models I have never seen,
including pictures of many variations on the C-shaped pre-war Hemmi
cursors. and has a price with 57 models listed plus 10 models that are
listed as having been discontinued before the publishing of the book.
I am in the process of scanning. Stay tuned; a preview shot of the
raw list can be seen at
http://www2.gol.com/users/billlise/sliderules/hemmi1937pl.jpg my
translation
of which will be coming shortly.