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1929 Triumph Klein-Triumph Serial # 76663 1929 Triumph Klein-Triumph typewriter, Serial # 76663 Aaron Friedrich Lotar Rolf Klamp's 1929 Triumph Klein-Triumph typewriter. 2025-07-19 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Aaron Friedrich Lotar Rolf Klamp: 1929 Triumph Klein-Triumph Serial # 76663 This Klein-Triumph is in my collection for quite some time. It isn’t by far my most beloved, but since I’ve put a lot of effort into it, I thought I’d add a little more and create a gallery.
In terms of looks, it is now in an overall presentable state, both visually and technically, but when I got it, it was far from it.
It was dusty, rusty, with scattered bits of what once was rubber, and a sad-looking case. The reason I bought it, besides a general curiosity about rarities, was that its decals were intact, as well as its plastic backsheet, and it came with original spools that I hadn’t seen before.

So I did a lot of the usual dusting, flushing, and cleaning at the beginning. At that point, I realized that the materials used for the “not essential” parts were of poor quality. Under the paint job, “rustworms” appeared, the chrome was of the thinnest make, or the base material was rusting through, and the sheet metal was very thin as well.
All in all, it turned out quite well, and the mechanics are precise and still do their job today. However, the fact that the Klein-Triumph is labeled six times in the most prominent fashion but is cheap on some quality matters makes it for me a nice showpiece, but not an overall classic.

Anyway – step two was to replace the rubber parts as much as possible to get rid of the brittle stuff. For the feet, I found four excellent cable ducts that couldn’t have fit better. They have the perfect height and inner and outer diameters. The upper pressure rollers were renewed with rubber hoses and are doing their job.
Now, the platen is still original and rock-hard, but I’m not sure if that investment changes my overall view of this little guy, and whether it’s worth it.

Besides all that, I undertook a major overhaul of the case because what’s the point of a shiny typewriter when you put it in old socks? Maybe it was due to humidity, but the fabric was glued loose everywhere from its wooden base. The metal parts—lock, handle, feet, brush holder, and protective sheet—were more or less rusty in a blooming way.
I reattached the fabric everywhere (including the green one on the bottom plate) with wood glue, which I partly injected through small cuts. It worked out alright, but there are still bubbles on the lid of the case. I brushed off the metal parts and polished them afterward to give them a better feel and a patina you dare to touch and look at.
Unfortunately, the polishing paste left some white residues on parts I couldn’t remove with reasonable effort. I think this could be concealed with a re-blackening of the whole case, perhaps with shoe cream or something similar. But it’s unlikely I’ll do that.

Furthermore, I renewed the leather on the handle because the original was hard and brittle, with pieces already coming off, exposing a rusty metal tube.
So everything was disassembled, derusted, and a new leather was applied.
Lastly, I reattached the metal sheet that protects the inner left side from scratches caused by the return lever and gave the case new rubber feet. Sadly, those flat feet, which are common for many typewriter cases, can’t be bought today, so I had to stick with generic Adam Halls. But it’s far better than spreading brittle rubber and scratching your table with holding screws, which the original feet mostly consisted of.

So, all in all it was some work to bring everthing in the actual state, but probably it ends here with me. Maybe in a far future someone will rechrome and repaint the whole thing, as well as giving it a new platen, and evoila it becomes everybodys Darling.
But for now I go with its close successor, the "Durable", from which I have two here. The "Durable" is in terms of look and quality the far balanced Typewriter in my opinion, lacking the gold decals but packing it for sturdyness and excellent mechanics.
When I put the Klein-Triumph and Durable side by side, there is no question who the real classic is ;-)

1929 Triumph Klein-Triumph #76663

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Hunter: Aaron Friedrich Lotar Rolf Klamp (Technokid)
Created: 07-15-2025 at 03:13AM
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This Klein-Triumph is in my collection for quite some time. It isn’t by far my most beloved, but since I’ve put a lot of effort into it, I thought I’d add a little more and create a gallery.
In terms of looks, it is now in an overall presentable state, both visually and technically, but when I got it, it was far from it.
It was dusty, rusty, with scattered bits of what once was rubber, and a sad-looking case. The reason I bought it, besides a general curiosity about rarities, was that its decals were intact, as well as its plastic backsheet, and it came with original spools that I hadn’t seen before.

So I did a lot of the usual dusting, flushing, and cleaning at the beginning. At that point, I realized that the materials used for the “not essential” parts were of poor quality. Under the paint job, “rustworms” appeared, the chrome was of the thinnest make, or the base material was rusting through, and the sheet metal was very thin as well.
All in all, it turned out quite well, and the mechanics are precise and still do their job today. However, the fact that the Klein-Triumph is labeled six times in the most prominent fashion but is cheap on some quality matters makes it for me a nice showpiece, but not an overall classic.

Anyway – step two was to replace the rubber parts as much as possible to get rid of the brittle stuff. For the feet, I found four excellent cable ducts that couldn’t have fit better. They have the perfect height and inner and outer diameters. The upper pressure rollers were renewed with rubber hoses and are doing their job.
Now, the platen is still original and rock-hard, but I’m not sure if that investment changes my overall view of this little guy, and whether it’s worth it.

Besides all that, I undertook a major overhaul of the case because what’s the point of a shiny typewriter when you put it in old socks? Maybe it was due to humidity, but the fabric was glued loose everywhere from its wooden base. The metal parts—lock, handle, feet, brush holder, and protective sheet—were more or less rusty in a blooming way.
I reattached the fabric everywhere (including the green one on the bottom plate) with wood glue, which I partly injected through small cuts. It worked out alright, but there are still bubbles on the lid of the case. I brushed off the metal parts and polished them afterward to give them a better feel and a patina you dare to touch and look at.
Unfortunately, the polishing paste left some white residues on parts I couldn’t remove with reasonable effort. I think this could be concealed with a re-blackening of the whole case, perhaps with shoe cream or something similar. But it’s unlikely I’ll do that.

Furthermore, I renewed the leather on the handle because the original was hard and brittle, with pieces already coming off, exposing a rusty metal tube.
So everything was disassembled, derusted, and a new leather was applied.
Lastly, I reattached the metal sheet that protects the inner left side from scratches caused by the return lever and gave the case new rubber feet. Sadly, those flat feet, which are common for many typewriter cases, can’t be bought today, so I had to stick with generic Adam Halls. But it’s far better than spreading brittle rubber and scratching your table with holding screws, which the original feet mostly consisted of.

So, all in all it was some work to bring everthing in the actual state, but probably it ends here with me. Maybe in a far future someone will rechrome and repaint the whole thing, as well as giving it a new platen, and evoila it becomes everybodys Darling.
But for now I go with its close successor, the "Durable", from which I have two here. The "Durable" is in terms of look and quality the far balanced Typewriter in my opinion, lacking the gold decals but packing it for sturdyness and excellent mechanics.
When I put the Klein-Triumph and Durable side by side, there is no question who the real classic is ;-)

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