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ROYAL » TOUCH CONTROL « PORTABLE SN = 0-523733 ROYAL (1940) New York / USA US QWERTY keyboard pica 10 cpi; 85 cpl black/red ribbon w. hard case 14_1/2 lbs ; 6.6 kg Have a look at a Newer Version ... Back to the Typewriter Overview |
HISTORICAL REMARKS: ********************************************************************* based on the text of Richard Milton's HomePage: The ROYAL company was founded 1906 in New York by financier Th.F.Ryan and the typewriter inventor E.B.Hess ... " ... Royal's flamboyant president, George Ed Smith, decided that the most spectacular way of getting the new machines from the factory in Hartford to the nationwide network of 2,100 dealers set up to sell portables, was by air - then a revolutionary idea. He bought a Ford Tri-motor plane and announced to his horrified factory staff that they were going to parachute the portable machines to dealers. A total of 11,000 portables were parachuted all over America with nervous Royal engineers standing by in the drop zones typewriter to unpackage the machines and make sure they still worked. Amazingly, claimed the company, only half a dozen of the 11,000 machines were damaged -- through landing on their corners -- thus achieving just the effect that Smith wanted to have on the buying public. The Royal Portable was so tough it would stand anything ... " R E M A R K : » TOUCH CONTROL « SHIFT-Key moves the CARRIAGE up impressum: ********************************************************************* © C.HAMANN http://public.BHT-Berlin.de/hamann 08/03/07 |