IMPERIAL THE GOOD COMPANION TYPEWRITER FROM 1942 (SERIAL EE059)
THIS IS AN IMPERIAL THE GOOD COMPANION PORTABLE TYPEWRITER MADE IN 1942 (SERIAL NO EE059) RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF WORLD WAR 2. IT COMES IN A HARD CARRY CASE. IT IS IN GOOD WORKING CONDITION FOR ITS AGE.
This model is in a beautiful charcoal black colour with a crinkle effect to the paintwork on the metal body . It has the traditional black and silver chrome surrounds to the keys with dark creme coloured letters and numbers .It has the Imperial Royal Warrant crest on the top right , as well as " Manufactured by the Imperial Typewriter Company Ltd Leicester England " on the back and the "Imperial The Good Companion " logo on the front above the keys.
SERIAL NUMBER: EE059
LOCATED UNDER THE SPACEBAR TO THE RIGHT
ACCORDING TO THE SERIAL NO DATABASE THIS TYPEWRITER WAS MADE IN 1942 IN THE MIDDLE OF WORLD WAR 2.
MARKINGS:
FRONT - IMPERIAL THE GOOD COMPANION AND MADE IN LEICESTER ENGLAND
BACK MANUFACTURED BY THE IMPERIAL TYPEWRITER COMPANY LEICESTER ENGLAND
SIZE CASE 31CM WIDE x 31CM DEEP x 12CM HIGH APPROXIMATELY WEIGHT 5KG
CONDITION: THIS IMPERIAL TYPEWRITER IN VERY GOOD CONDITION FOR ITS AGE. EVERYTHING LOOKS TO BE IN WORKING CONDITION. ALL KEYS LIFT SMOOTHLY.
THE GOOD COMPANION MODELS: The Imperial Typewriters Good Companion typewriter series was named after British writer and playwright and Imperial user J.B. Priestley's play of the same name. It was an extremely popular British-made typewriter series made between 1932 and the 1960s. The first model off the production line in 1932 was presented to Priestley by Imperial thus providing some useful launch publicity - and a useful marketing boost. The company also gained the typewriter 'By Royal Appointment' insignia when a machine was sold to Buckingham Palace and thus gained a valuable PR coup as Britain's most prestigious and most visible typewriter manufacturer.
Mechanically the Imperial Good Companion portable typewriter changed very little between the first model of 1932 and the Model 6 of 1961. The model 7 was the last model of the Good Companion typewriter series. In 1963, a radically redesigned version of the Good Companion, renamed The Messenger was introduced.
IMPERIAL TYPEWRITERS (1911-1980): The Imperial Typewriter Company was a British manufacturer of typewriters based in Leicester, England and established by Hidalgo Moya, an American-Spanish engineer who lived in England, in 1911. In 1954, the company expanded and opened up a second factory in Hull.
In the late 1960s, the Imperial Typewriter Company succumbed to cheaper overseas production costs and began to import machines from Japan. In the 1970s, Imperial was taken over by US electronics giant Litton Industries, which also swallowed up Royal Typewriters, and after a brief revival under the brand name Imperial Business Equipment, the Imperial name disappeared completely in the 1980s.
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