Cool! I'm curious to see what you think of it, and how it compares with other machines.

The model 32 I just bought sounds more rattly/jangly than my other (all-metal) typewriters. The keys feel a little loose, but have a nice thunk at the bottom of the keystroke (which is why I bought it). Except for very occasionally, it kept up with me typing at full tilt. I am missing the tabulator, though... 

The key levers seen between the keys (as in your pic #2) remind me a lot of the movie Metropolis, and are fun to watch while typing. 

I've not had a chance to clean & adjust it, which may help a bit. If it grows on me enough to invest more time on, I might look at adding some rubber bushings & washers and upgrading the acoustic dampening to quiet it down a bit. 

What felt do you typically use? 

My Erika Model 40 (Daro) came in a week early from the UK.

Based on the serial number, it is actually made in 1976 and not 1977.

Case is well built and study.  It has a neat lift-out panel that holds the machine in place and can be used with or without the left out panel when the machine is taken out of its case..

Typewriter just needed a thorough cleaning, servicing, light oiling, and a new ribbon.  Everything works and it needed no further adjustments.

Typewriter (without its case weight) is only 11.0 lbs. and is a light-weight.  Key-top levers and type-slug levers are a bit "jangly" and have a bit of side-to-side motion.  But I think that is just a result of its light-build qualities.

Only down-side is that the Erika Daro does not have any touch-control feature.  But its print-on-paper is clear, precise, and dark/sharp with the new ribbon.  Platen is 9.5" wide and it has a 100-character scale across the platen...so has a very small elite font of 12 cpi.

It does allow me to type fast.  And this one might just join the ranks of my "on-the-go" smaller and lighter machines for outdoor work.  Probably not a desktop machine since I have many of them that do a better job.

Overall, I am quiet pleased and somewhat surprised with my new Erika Model 40 (Daro).  Seems like it was well cared for and probably not heavily used.
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I spent a little time typing on my Erika 42 this weekend. The weather was fabulous, so I decided to sit out on the deck, with the typewriter sitting on a lapboard. In this slightly more precarious arrangement, I noticed that the keys have a lot of horizontal play, left to right; much more than I remember before (though I think of it as a loose typer anyway). 

Pete, do you find similar results with your Daro? 

Wondering if it's my machine, or inherent to the model line. Of course that makes me wonder if there's a way to improve it. I do really like the straight-down typing action.