The " Bullard " cameras are beautifully finished, they contain every movement, and altogether they present a very handsome appearance. The inventive separable magazine is made to hold twelve plates ; it is practically devoid of mechanism and is almost as certain in action as an ordinary dark slide. A metal sheath is provided with two handles, which fits into the magazine, and transfers the plates from the front of the magazine to the back, after an exposure has been made. By pulling the sheath out with the long handle it will come out empty, the carrier containing the plates still remaining within the magazine. By removing the sheath with the short handle, the front carrier is drawn out of the magazine enclosed in the sheath, when it may be deposited at the back of the pile of carriers by inserting the sheath containing the carrier in the magazine through the rear slot. The carrier will then automatically remain in the magazine upon the withdrawal of the sheath. This operation can be repeated until the whole of the plates have been exposed.

The Bullard series A A camera, with the separable magazine and loaded with twelve plates, weighs a little over 34 Ibs. It contains, beside the above invention, a patent automatic swing-back. Hitherto there has been some difficulty with using the American type of camera owing to the majority of them not being fitted with swing-back. The " Bullard " overcomes this difficulty. The A A pattern is supplied with " Unicam " shutter, rack and pinion, rising, falling, and sliding front, and brilliant finder.

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Ref: The Photographic Dealer, Jan. 1901

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