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198x Smith Corona Courier CT Serial # 8YA394677 198x Smith Corona Courier CT typewriter, Serial # 8YA394677 Dean Cummings's 198x Smith Corona Courier CT typewriter. 2019-11-02 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Dean Cummings: 198x Smith Corona Courier CT Serial # 8YA394677 This Smith-Corona Courier is a baby blue, plastic bodied, portable manual typewriter. It has a clam shell form fitting case that holds the machine snugly in place when transporting. It has a ribbon advance system where both spools are turned, click by click as opposed to other systems where one spool turns freely. This model light to carry and easy to use. This was the third typewriter I've ever purchased.

198x Smith Corona Courier CT #8YA394677

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Dean Cummings (Lancer)
Created: 10-31-2019 at 08:49PM
Last Edit: 11-02-2019 at 06:49AM

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This Smith-Corona Courier is a baby blue, plastic bodied, portable manual typewriter. It has a clam shell form fitting case that holds the machine snugly in place when transporting. It has a ribbon advance system where both spools are turned, click by click as opposed to other systems where one spool turns freely. This model light to carry and easy to use. This was the third typewriter I've ever purchased.

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Manufactured at Kenrick Way, West Bromwich, England. Designed by David Oscar Chase, Phillip H. Stevens and Robert Metzner.
Manufactured at Kenrick Way, West Bromwich, England. Designed by David Oscar Chase, Phillip H. Stevens and Robert Metzner.

Smith Corona "Courier" and it's clam shell case.
Smith Corona "Courier" and it's clam shell case.

View from carriage return lever side
View from carriage return lever side

Right side view
Right side view

Label affixed to the underside of the cover plate
Label affixed to the underside of the cover plate




Hunter: Dean Cummings (Lancer)

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Music school owner and novelist who enjoys communicating and storytelling using the power of a manual typewriter. I am definitely a fan of Joe Van Cleave's typewriter video series.


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