Noctis Adversaria
Underwood didn’t start as a typewriter company. John T. Underwood built the business supplying ribbons and carbon paper to other manufacturers, chiefly Remington, until Remington...
Royal’s first budget portable was the Model P, released in 1926. The Model O replaced it in 1932, and for the next three years the...
This is my third Olympia, and second SM3, which also happens to be a 1958 model. That part wasn’t intentional. I purchased this machine because...
I wanted a pre-1969 SM9, because after that, things changed. In 1964 Olympia broke from the carriage-shift design that had carried the SM line since...
When most typewriter makers were stripping their machines down to bare bones to survive the Great Depression, Remington went the other direction with the Model...
If American manufacturers were racing toward color and styling in the late 1950s, Olympia of West Germany was after something else entirely: precision. The SM3...
Not every great typewriter wore the name of the company that actually built it. The 1959 Tower President XII is one of those. “Tower” was...
By 1956, Smith-Corona was building machines that felt serious and stylish at once, and the Silent Super still turns up in more collections than almost...
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