Many thanks again for the info. HTH. Access to picking people's brains who've been working with typewriters for that chunk of time is certainly why I'm here. I don't feel bad about chopping off those eyelets.

Just to be silly I'll put some more pics in here. I have too much time on my hands clearly.

Here's a sample of the whole set of glyphs. I studied typography at London College of Printing oddly enough, but that was over 15 years ago (time really does fly). We used to play around with typesetting on various ancient printing machines - but we never played with typewriters much and I never did end up going into graphic design (which was the intention of at the time).

The character set shows the French Canadian keyboard. So it has the $, but no £. Along with the é and ç etc. The serial # seems to place it around 1975.


I'm taking some shots of them to upload onto the TWDB - but realise I have to get my account confirmed etc.

The script font I have on the other machine is pretty... but again, not certain of the cpi. Will try measuring between 2 and 3 next time ;-)

I'm mainly using it for journaling (and letters) at the moment - the serial on it is #4758198, so I think a 1974 model.

 

Greetings to you "other typewriter people".  I'm a definite lover of the site - I'd been using it unregistered for a long while (but very off-and-on).

I'm living up in Canada (well, not far up, in Montréal). But I'm originally from the UK.

My mother taught typing when I was a child and I remember messing around on the machines as back then (and getting black and red fingers)... but I'd never really used one (certainly never owned one) until about 2012 not realising that it had become a huge trend (yes, I'm a bit of a hermit).

I don't use them nearly enough - but I bought them to get into writing more. They have taught me that I am currently a terrible writer, but it's a start.

I've been looking at various "typecast" blogs which have fired up the brain. I now have 5 typewriters to add to the TWDB. The SM9's are in basically perfect condition - but the Tippa is definitely going to be a project.

- Olympia SM9 from the early '70s, Canadian keyboard with Pica or Elite (not sure, but I think it's Elite)
- Olympia SM9 from the mid- '70s, with a script font and a wide carriage
- Triumph Tippa (in awful condition, which I intend to work on). Spanish keyboard that I got from Argentina.
- Facit 1620, UK keyboard - looks to be an early 70's one (still in the post at this point, will have to clean out the escapement on arrival).

sidenote: I didn't get the verification email either btw - and I registered with a gmx address.