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1936 Royal KHM Serial # KHM-1938102 1936 Royal KHM typewriter, Serial # KHM-1938102 James Grooms's 1936 Royal KHM typewriter. 2025-02-22 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of James Grooms: 1936 Royal KHM Serial # KHM-1938102 A fair example. Feet and bushing project from a KMG and the holder rail is different. KHM uses a slightly larger foot with a rail piece that also has larger accomodations for the feet. See the link for good ideas on how you can repurpose bad feet into bushings. The platen on this is pretty rough. With a thick backing sheet, still a pretty good type sample.

A substantial improvement from the 10. This is where Royal really separates itself from the pack. Like the KMM that will follow it, sales exceeded manufacturing capacity.
H/KH/KHM total, roughly, 586, 000. Count 34 and 38 as half years for a 4 year production run and 146,500 units per year.
THE LONGER VIEW:

Royal goes to segment shift in 1931. This is in the middle of the Great Depression. Sales of their high margin standard dropped 67% in 1932 right when you'd imagine they would have a price increase for a significantly more complex and feature rich machine. Next up they must have had the keyset tab in the pipe and another increase in their manufacturing cost was added on in the midst of a global economic meltdown. So a solid theory would be they couldn't move K series machines and went back to S models without the keyset tab mechanism. Why didn't they release the H model with a keyset tab?

The economy recovers and they release the H/KH/KHM and by 1937 sales have improved six fold over the 1933 nosedive. In addition, Royal had pulled nearly even with Underwood, who in 1928 had sold twice as many standard machines. It will only get worse, as they have no competitive answer for the KMM.
For comparison, KHT/KMM built 1,600,000 units with an additional 965,000 KMGs.

1936 Royal KHM #KHM-1938102

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Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
Created: 11-13-2024 at 05:44AM
Last Edit: 02-22-2025 at 05:18AM

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A fair example. Feet and bushing project from a KMG and the holder rail is different. KHM uses a slightly larger foot with a rail piece that also has larger accomodations for the feet. See the link for good ideas on how you can repurpose bad feet into bushings. The platen on this is pretty rough. With a thick backing sheet, still a pretty good type sample.

A substantial improvement from the 10. This is where Royal really separates itself from the pack. Like the KMM that will follow it, sales exceeded manufacturing capacity.
H/KH/KHM total, roughly, 586, 000. Count 34 and 38 as half years for a 4 year production run and 146,500 units per year.
THE LONGER VIEW:

Royal goes to segment shift in 1931. This is in the middle of the Great Depression. Sales of their high margin standard dropped 67% in 1932 right when you'd imagine they would have a price increase for a significantly more complex and feature rich machine. Next up they must have had the keyset tab in the pipe and another increase in their manufacturing cost was added on in the midst of a global economic meltdown. So a solid theory would be they couldn't move K series machines and went back to S models without the keyset tab mechanism. Why didn't they release the H model with a keyset tab?

The economy recovers and they release the H/KH/KHM and by 1937 sales have improved six fold over the 1933 nosedive. In addition, Royal had pulled nearly even with Underwood, who in 1928 had sold twice as many standard machines. It will only get worse, as they have no competitive answer for the KMM.
For comparison, KHT/KMM built 1,600,000 units with an additional 965,000 KMGs.

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Interesting large bell on this one moved to the right where they typically moved them on models with the larger decimal tab tower.
Interesting large bell on this one moved to the right where they typically moved them on models with the larger decimal tab tower.


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As with many, the bug is back there somewhere due to an Underwood No. 5. My grandparents had a No 5. My parents had a yellow Royal Safari that I used to index card everything, including a beer can collection. Collection syndrome clue! A casual interest in typewriters started with a garage sale 3 bank simply because it said Underwood on it. Typewriters were found here and there , but I wasn't actively looking for them. The long dormant collecting tic was activated when my neighbors left a Remington Quiet Riter on the curb when they moved.

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