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1953 Royal HH Serial # HHE-5188675 1953 Royal HH typewriter, Serial # HHE-5188675 James Grooms's 1953 Royal HH typewriter. 2024-12-29 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of James Grooms: 1953 Royal HH Serial # HHE-5188675 This typewriter was dropped and this broke the front frame crossmember (last two images). I lugged it home for the parts. Then I started looking at this crossmember bit and was curious how it was pinned and if you could get it out without taking the main frame casting apart. So the broken one came out easy, obviously, and it looked like a good one could be swapped in from a rusty 13 in carriage machine. So that's what I did and accounts for the slight color difference.

A testament to how well they were built because this thing was smacked hard. The owner jammed some cardboard into the break so they could get the spacebar to clear and kept on rolling. The only thing that was amiss was the tab levers were a little tweaked.

Arguably the peak of manual typewriter engineering before the electric comes to dominate the market and quality starts to slide for the non electric standards.
They were so good HHs were still being sold at dealers in the late 70s. The rebuilt prices consistently outpace their contemporaries. In 1964 $10 was equivalent to $100 today, so asking $20-40 more for an HH vs an Underwood SX was significant.

1953 Royal HH #HHE-5188675

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Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
Created: 12-29-2024 at 04:31PM
Last Edit: 12-29-2024 at 05:13PM

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This typewriter was dropped and this broke the front frame crossmember (last two images). I lugged it home for the parts. Then I started looking at this crossmember bit and was curious how it was pinned and if you could get it out without taking the main frame casting apart. So the broken one came out easy, obviously, and it looked like a good one could be swapped in from a rusty 13 in carriage machine. So that's what I did and accounts for the slight color difference.

A testament to how well they were built because this thing was smacked hard. The owner jammed some cardboard into the break so they could get the spacebar to clear and kept on rolling. The only thing that was amiss was the tab levers were a little tweaked.

Arguably the peak of manual typewriter engineering before the electric comes to dominate the market and quality starts to slide for the non electric standards.
They were so good HHs were still being sold at dealers in the late 70s. The rebuilt prices consistently outpace their contemporaries. In 1964 $10 was equivalent to $100 today, so asking $20-40 more for an HH vs an Underwood SX was significant.

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As with many, the bug is back there somewhere due to an Underwood No. 5. My grandfather was on a small town school board and used one for this. My parents had a yellow Royal Safari that I used to index card everything, including a beer can collection. Collection syndrome clue! The long dormant tic was activated when my neighbors left a Remington Quiet Riter on the curb when they moved in circa 2010, Yes a believe it or not story is next, when a Hermes 3000 comes home with the girlfriend from work for free. Yes, free! From there the addiction is full steam. And yes, I now have a No. 5. Typewriters are the perfect blend of using one's technical skills, history and functional purpose.


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