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197X Smith Corona Electra 120 Serial # 6ELL 193293 197X Smith Corona Electra 120 typewriter, Serial # 6ELL 193293 James Grooms's 197X Smith Corona Electra 120 typewriter. 2025-03-22 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of James Grooms: 197X Smith Corona Electra 120 Serial # 6ELL 193293 Like I need another S-C electric, but an original owner garage sale Electra 120 could not be passed up. This one in a great gold hue with the unusual 1/2 line spacing.

Unfortunately there is no SN breakout for these hugely popular machines, but we can use the gallery to figure much of it out for dating purposes. It appears they went to this 6ELL and the different front panel around 1970. See the main page "6ELE" which would appear to mean 6ELL. The newspaper ads, always slow to show an image of the actual model's styling changes, seem to confirm circa 1970-71 for this panel.

I think it goes like this:
6L E machines in tan with no changeable slugs are circa 63. For 62 it was Electra 12.
6LE2 Red changeable type.
6LEV Black changeable type.
6ELL new for Aug 69, ie 197X with the disco panel.

197X Smith Corona Electra 120 #6ELL 193293

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Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
Created: 07-13-2024 at 05:58PM
Last Edit: 03-22-2025 at 07:20PM

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Like I need another S-C electric, but an original owner garage sale Electra 120 could not be passed up. This one in a great gold hue with the unusual 1/2 line spacing.

Unfortunately there is no SN breakout for these hugely popular machines, but we can use the gallery to figure much of it out for dating purposes. It appears they went to this 6ELL and the different front panel around 1970. See the main page "6ELE" which would appear to mean 6ELL. The newspaper ads, always slow to show an image of the actual model's styling changes, seem to confirm circa 1970-71 for this panel.

I think it goes like this:
6L E machines in tan with no changeable slugs are circa 63. For 62 it was Electra 12.
6LE2 Red changeable type.
6LEV Black changeable type.
6ELL new for Aug 69, ie 197X with the disco panel.

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