Australian California Job Case

This layout is shown in the Western Australia Education Department, Technical Extension Service: Course for Composing Apprentices (c.1960). It keeps to the English practice of mids and thins above the i box, and as the booklet points out, the lay is practically the same as their bookwork lays, i.e. their Upper and Lower if combined into the one case, and dropping the accents, fractions and signs (being seldom used in modern hand composing). It is fairly close to the English lay given by Whetton (1946 to 1965), with e.g. q, and z and x, but for example Whetton keeps ae oe separate from AE OE, and does not have a box for hair spaces.

Note that the boxes for ffi and 7 and 8 should be the same size as those for ffl and 9 and 0. The empty configuration is U.S. California Job. Lays in the U.S., by contrast, put q where x is, ffl where J is, and start the figures above the i box, instead of the spacing. See for example, California Job of 1897 or the more modern California Job of 1997.