The International Cessna^® 170 Association

Howard Steed, a Delta pilot that I met in the early '70s, and whose younger brother I flew with at a commuter in the mid '70s, was rated and flew for Delta in DC9, B727, and L1011 aircraft, yet he had only type ratings without multi engine rating.
I hold ATP, Multi-engine land, with type ratings in HS125, BAe125, CE500, B737, and CFIA-I and Training Center Examiner, yet have never had an instrument rating. Weird combinations are possible, but usually because they are "grandfathered" under the old Part 61.

My father, who retired as DC-10 capt. for UAL told me he never took a MEL checkride. He passed his ATP in a Capital Airlines DC-3. He said the examiner added it to his certificate after one of his airline type checkrides. I remember him giving ME instruction

I remember when going thru 727 school some of the military guys came without a ME rating. The examiner would issue them one as part of the check ride but with a center line thrust restriction.

In the days of old,
When pilots were bold,
Before the FAA was invented.-----

An ATP was called an ATR and was described as a Commercial with an instrument rating. The license included a horsepower rating of fifty per cent under and fifty per cent over your logged experience.

After taking the written for her ATP, my daughter took her flight check in a Cessna 150 to preclude expiration of the written when the one year limit was approaching. I was kind of disappointed that it didn't include a type rating in the C-150.