I've never measured, but I suspect the Plana is a little smaller. However, the SF-based models were definitely the smallest Olympia models from the late '50s to early '80s. The SF and SF De Luxe designs gave way to models such as the Traveller and Traveller De Luxe.

Another little portable, loaned for a road-test; the Royal 203 (Litton)

Nice concise keyboard, but a 'mushy' space-bar.  Preset (?) tabs at 10 characters apart.

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Another Olympia SG1 with multi-ligual keyboard, but no apostrophe.  Struggling to type with this one, which was bought for spares but (it turns out) may yet be salvageable - so much more work needed, but the basic character set is shown, at least.  Learning that SG1s are so well built that even a hopeless-looking wreck may be repairable!

Last edited by beak (21-6-2014 04:15:25)

I have a Hermes with very small fonts.  I is small than the pica and elite.   I would like to submit a sample of each for comparison, and ask what that size may have been for?   This is from photobucket:http://FscNo344_2ps50963c23

I have always assumed that in the days when the cost of airmail was prohibitive to mailing missives overseas, that a typewriter with a smaller font was desirable as it would allow the sender to include more information without adding extra pages -- and cost -- to correspondence.