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Additional copy from the collection of Ryk van Dijk, scanned by Marlies Louwes. Munk with the assistance of Mr. Blickensderfer and P.
Robert, "The Five-Pound Secretary. An Illustrated History of the Blickensderfer Typewriter", publ. From the collection of Ryk van Dijk, scanned by Marlies Louwes. Published by Hans Burghagen Verlag. Remington Standard typewriter. Contributed by Richard Polt.
Contributed by Bill Wahl. E Weller Charles Mares Gilbert Pitman, London, Dickerson in ETCetera 1 October, Dietz Collection of Typewriters", by George Herrl, June, Oden, Huling in Scientific American - January 8, Royal was one of the longest-lived typewriter manufacturers. They introduced their first typewriter, the Royal 1, in and did not stop manufacturing tyepwriters until the s.
The company still exists, albeit having undergone many incarnations as part of various parent companies. Today, Royal is owned by Olivetti and still sells typewriters, though none with the famous Royal brand. Royal Standard No. Download the manual for the Model 1 version of this typewriter here. Royal 10 Serial X Note that although both the red and green versions of this model were manufactured in the same year, the red one has black-background keys and no tabulator, and the green one has white-background keys and a tabulator.
Royal 10 14" carriage Serial Little information is available on this family. The first of these, the Signet, was made o nly from Autumn, until about Sept, Rolled out with a heavy advertising campaign that included an essay contest, it was marketed as a low-cost alternative for "children, housewives, and letter writers".
It is caps-only, with a san-serif italic font designed especially for this machine for maximum readability. Despite immediate popularity, the Signet was abruptly discontinued after a single year. It seems that its low cost and popularity turned out to be its own undoing. The public was buying, but dealers weren't re-ordering. Royal had reasoned that the Signet's customers, once having mastered the Signet's simple features, would trade up for a more expensive model.
However, in the thick of the Depression, dealers had little interest in waiting for the Signet to turn a profit "in the long run". So the Signet was discontinued and replaced around November, , with something Royal internally called the , or "45" for short. I'm still trying to identify exactly what this machine was. A variation, the Signet Senior, typed in standard upper- and lower-case, and came in black.
It was apparently manufactured simultaneously with the caps-only Signet, leaving it unclear as to whether the two have unique serial number sequences or are intermixed. There are a few variations among Seniors: early ones have a tall "cowell" with the name printed up front, like the caps-only Signet; others, like the one shown here, have a shorter cowell and the name printed on the paper tray.
Early Seniors have a single shift key, on the left, and a metal tab for a shiftlock. Later, a second shift key was added to the right side, and eventually the shiftlock was upgraded from a tab to a proper key. The Signet is certainly radically different from all other Royal typewriters, except for its direct descendents shown below. It's so different that some people suspect that it was not designed by Royal at all.
Lending substance to this theory is the fact that no Royal design patent exists for the Signet. I have found design patents for every other model, including the Junior and one model that was never made, but not for the Signet. There is one patent for an early concept of Royal's first portable: no. It bears a striking resemblance to the Signet. Perhaps an old design was dusted off and tweaked? In December , Royal announced it had just produced its 10 millionth typewriter.
Congratulations were received from U. The deal became final in March October saw Litton announce plans to acquire the English typewriter producer Imperial, through its Royal Typewriter division.
In January , Litton Industries further cemented its hold on the typewriter market by purchasing the German typewriter manufacturer, Triumph Adler. Almost immediately, the U. Included in the deal was Royal Typewriter. For nearly two decades Royal was a part of the Olivetti family. During the s, Royal also produced consumer daisy wheel printers like the Royal LetterMaster and Royal OfficeMaster , the former being a cheaper model.
A Royal typewriter with a Prestige Elite typeface was one of the items found at Zodiac suspect Arthur Leigh Allen's apartment, matching the typewriter the Zodiac killer used to write letters sent to the Riverside Police Department. Hess [2] Headquarters Hartford, Connecticut. He called it his 'Loyal Royal'. Antique Underwood No. Serial F Pre-Owned. Serial J1A Pre-Owned.
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