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"Comda" Typewriter...?
Anyone know more about the "Comda" typewriter...which appears to be a re-badge of the Facit TP-1 in a different color and with Comda name badging ?
Toronto Typewriters has one for sale (but price is way to high for my wallet).
Was this re-badge for Canada only or other countries too ?
Still made in Sweden ?
Here is the link to this shop's offering :
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Re: "Comda" Typewriter...?
I like that they did the back badges in the same style as the Facit it was based on.
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I was thinking this might be the Comda promotional products company based in Toronto, CA...but that company started in 1973 (still going strong today) and a bit too late for this late 1950's or early 1960's Facit model TP-1.
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I haven't yet explored the COMDA name (probably should have), but there are examples such as my '65 TP1 that have mixed badging with FACIT on the front and COMDA on the back. My example has the same retailer sticker on the back, which leads me to believe that COMDA wasn't a retailer/department store selling private label models produced by Facit.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Uwe,
Interesting...these two machine have the same service-shop label on the back panel.
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The reseller/middleman with the obscene prices who was mentioned in your first post gets a lot of his inventory locally, the same area that my COMDA Facit came from.
Quite a few of my (non-Facit) typewriters have identical dealer stickers. I checked my other Facits and two of them had dealer stickers too, but from other local dealers. It appears that Facit was well represented in the Toronto area; of course the BIG caveat is that these stickers could have been applied by a dealer servicing the machine rather than it being the one that originally sold the typewriter.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Obscene...yes.
Nice Blue Bird machines offered for $ 1500 CAD that only seem to be cleaned and serviced.
For that amount of $$'s, I would expect new platen, new rollers, and a new draw band in addition to cleaning and servicing.
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I did send an email to the COMDA promotional products co. in Toronto asking in their years prior if they were involved with typewriters.
If I get a reply, I will report that here.
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No reply received after 2 emails sent...
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