1960? Nippo Alpina Baby #373227
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
Created: 03-21-2018 at 03:57PM
Last Edit: 03-21-2018 at 03:58PM
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Description:
Nippo was a minor Japanese manufacturer that sold machines under a variety of names, including Elgin Collegiate, Atlas, Jaguar, Clipper, Condor, and Rexina. These are not innovative typewriters, but they do have a few unusual ways of doing things, such as a ribbon reversing mechanism that I haven't seen elsewhere and a lever that does double duty as carriage release and paper release (as on the ABC). You can download a Nippo user's manual from The Classic Typewriter Page. What is interesting about this typewriter is that it is the only known Nippo Alpina Baby. Note that the name Alpina does not appear on the machine, but the well-known Alpina "A" logo does. It is reasonable to assume that Alpina ordered a few machines from Nippo as an experiment, but I am not aware of any other survivors, or of any advertising for this model.
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