You're assuming that the Made in Canada Olympia models were sold in the U.S., but I don't think that they were, at least I haven't come across any evidence that suggests that they were.

Also, you shouldn't forget that Remington, Royal, Underwood and Smith-Corona had typewriter factories in Canada. And there were other manufacturing/assembly brands in Canada too such as IBM and Commodore. With so many different manufacturers producing typewriters within Canada you can bet that it made financial sense for them, so it shouldn't be a surprise that Olympia found some arrangement to its benefit as well. 

Thanks for posting your serial number. I was confused as to how an all-grey model could have been made in '67, but your serial number confirms that it's actually a '68 model, which makes a lot more sense. Early '67 models had the complete green trim with white keys, and late '67 models such as mine below had minimal green trim, grey keys, and a perspex margin scale.

Uwe wrote:

Yeah, 7,6 is for the motion, and not what I was after. However, 87 is for the standard Olympia elite typeface. There's nothing micro about it, it just looks smaller because it's a European-sized elite. Thanks for looking.

Well, I decided to do a little comparison with some of my Olympia typefaces because I had really been convinced this machine had a font smaller than usual.
As you can see, I measured out an inch and counted how many characters (and spaces) were in each typeface in the space of an inch. The "micro elite" type face was a fair deal smaller than the regular SG1 elite, and a lot smaller than pica.

Uwe wrote:

You're assuming that the Made in Canada Olympia models were sold in the U.S., but I don't think that they were, at least I haven't come across any evidence that suggests that they were.

Also, you shouldn't forget that Remington, Royal, Underwood and Smith-Corona had typewriter factories in Canada. And there were other manufacturing/assembly brands in Canada too such as IBM and Commodore. With so many different manufacturers producing typewriters within Canada you can bet that it made financial sense for them, so it shouldn't be a surprise that Olympia found some arrangement to its benefit as well. 

Thanks for posting your serial number. I was confused as to how an all-grey model could have been made in '67, but your serial number confirms that it's actually a '68 model, which makes a lot more sense. Early '67 models had the complete green trim with white keys, and late '67 models such as mine below had minimal green trim, grey keys, and a perspex margin scale.

Whoops, clerical error on my part reporting the serial number - need to read closer next time!  

And that's true, I hadn't considered that the number of other makes with Canadian factories could potentially include Olympia as well. I suppose just because it's new to me doesn't make it new to everyone, haha.  All part of the joy and journey of discovery that is typewriter collecting.  Any chance you can provide information on your best guess at how long Olympias were made in Canada?

Nice SG3 though, hopefully mine will look that good when I'm done with it.  Mine will pair nicely...  SOMEWHERE... with my SG1.  (Lack of) space will dictate where I actually park them, as both currently live on the floor.

One last thought:  I'm toying with the idea of respraying the top cover a brighter shade of white, like the later redesigned models.  That way, I could have the nice script logo on a brighter-coloured machine.  The current colour is really quite dull.  Thoughts?

Point taken in the robustness of the factory finish.  I'm no autobody expert, but I do use an airbrush to paint while modeling on occasion.  With the appropriate level of care, I imagine one could do an OK job.  On a machine for resale, I would absolutely leave it factory - but I would be OK with experimenting a bit on a machine that I know I'll be keeping.  At any rate, I need to get the inside of the machine cleaned up before I worry one way or another about the exterior.

However, another thought just crossed my mind while reading your comment; the top panels on an SG3 are quite easy to remove.  If one could procure a worn shell and refinish it, it would only take a couple of minutes to swap out the ribbon cover and the piece under the carriage, and then you could have as many colours as you had shells available...

FYI I'm not actually about to start hunting for clapped-out SG3s, but imagine if you could market designer typewriter shells that you could swap out like smartphone cases?

I would nominate Danielle Steele for membership: http://www.wsj.com/articles/danielle-steels-favorite-things-1474903381

The SG1 she's used takes front and center place. She's used it for 155 (!!) books. (Note that hers does have the paper support....) I'm comforted that I paid the same amount for mine as she did.