1928 Mead Portable #105817
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Nick Creaton (WhippySteggall)
Created: 12-29-2017 at 11:51AM
Last Edit: 12-29-2017 at 02:11PM
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Description:
Labelled Mead Limited, Birmingham, England. According to Wilfred Beeching's book "Century of the Typewriter," this was made by Torpedowerke of Germany and was the forerunner to the Imperial Good Companion portable range. The Imperial Typewriter Co, Ltd importing the tooling from Torpedowerke sometime shortly after 1928.
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Hunter: Nick Creaton (WhippySteggall)
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Typewriter collector from the UK. Had my first portable in my youth (Imperial Good Companion Model 1). Later changed to an Olympia Splendid 66 and then in November 1967 had my first standard an Imperial 70 which I still have and use to this day. Have collected on and off ever since. Though I have an Imperial Model D of 1919 in my collection my interest is more the models available during the 1960's when I first learnt to touch type.
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