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1961 Tower Citation Serial # 6 AT102234 1961 Tower Citation typewriter, Serial # 6 AT102234 David Richman's 1961 Tower Citation typewriter. 2025-10-21 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of David Richman: 1961 Tower Citation Serial # 6 AT102234 This machine was a pleasure to restore, from what I'v seen, Tower just rebadged Smith Corona machines to make there sears typewriters witch isent a bad idea I guess mainly because Smith Corona is just a really good brand, cant go bad rebadging something that's already great. The Tower Citation and the Tower citation 88 are just rebadged Smith Corona 5 series machines with a cool new Sears body on it and to be honest, I kinda like the Sears specific body style. I have a 1971 Smith Corona Super Sterling, made 10 years after my Citation and I think they took a step back, the Citation types better in my opinion. O, my machine had this weird issue were the backspace mechanism was getting stuck underneath the shifting mechanism preventing the machine from shifting properly, im not proud of this but to fix it I ended up gluing a small piece of plastic to stop the backspace button from resting level with the rest of the keys witch for some reason fixed my issue. its such a strange issue, did anyone else struggle with this?

1961 Tower Citation #6 AT102234

Status: My Collection
Hunter: David Richman (David1887)
Created: 10-21-2025 at 05:11PM
Last Edit: 10-21-2025 at 05:31PM

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This machine was a pleasure to restore, from what I'v seen, Tower just rebadged Smith Corona machines to make there sears typewriters witch isent a bad idea I guess mainly because Smith Corona is just a really good brand, cant go bad rebadging something that's already great. The Tower Citation and the Tower citation 88 are just rebadged Smith Corona 5 series machines with a cool new Sears body on it and to be honest, I kinda like the Sears specific body style. I have a 1971 Smith Corona Super Sterling, made 10 years after my Citation and I think they took a step back, the Citation types better in my opinion. O, my machine had this weird issue were the backspace mechanism was getting stuck underneath the shifting mechanism preventing the machine from shifting properly, im not proud of this but to fix it I ended up gluing a small piece of plastic to stop the backspace button from resting level with the rest of the keys witch for some reason fixed my issue. its such a strange issue, did anyone else struggle with this?

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Weird Sears info panel. Still can't figure out what the model number means or if it means anything at all.
Weird Sears info panel. Still can't figure out what the model number means or if it means anything at all.

This picture is mainly for anyone who needs help fixing a Smith Corona 5 series. I like to include these pictures because I would like to surf the typewriter database to help restore my machines but there's just not a lot of these pictures that I've seen
This picture is mainly for anyone who needs help fixing a Smith Corona 5 series. I like to include these pictures because I would like to surf the typewriter database to help restore my machines but there's just not a lot of these pictures that I've seen

Hunter: David Richman (David1887)

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I have been collecting and restoring typewriter's for about 2 and a half years now, I collect and restore other antiques aswell but I mainly focus on typewriters.


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