197X Smith Corona Courier #8YA315714
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
Created: 04-09-2014 at 06:42PM
Last Edit: 04-09-2014 at 06:46PM
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Description:
A late English-made Courier with a big plastic body and form-fitting case. Also seen in the C/T (correcting typewriter) version. Essentially this is the same old cheap, rickety little machine, but it has a very smooth carriage, and a new ribbon advance system. Both spools are turned notch by notch, and both reverse their directions when the end of the ribbon is reversed (in contrast to the usual system, where one spool simply spins freely).
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Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
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Obsessive typewriterist, creator of The Classic Typewriter Page in 1995, editor of ETCetera 2006-2012 & 2015-2019, blogger, author of The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century (2015). E-mail: polt@xavier.edu
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