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Torpedo 18 and Olympia SM-3
Someone on another forum posted a photo of their Torpedo 18 (I think it was an 18b), and someone else pointed out that it looked almost exactly like an Olympia SM-3. They asked about any possible relationship between the respective manufacturers. Both were made in Germany. I believe that the Torpedo has a basket shift, and the SM-3 a carriage shift, or at least that's what I read on my phone. (My phone knows everything, but sometimes it lies.) The Torpedo was marketed by Remington.
“Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed.
I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty:
at least if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.”
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Re: Torpedo 18 and Olympia SM-3
Nobody? Anybody?
“Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed.
I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty:
at least if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.”
~ Dylan Thomas
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Re: Torpedo 18 and Olympia SM-3
Yes, these two typewriters do have a very similar styling and a similar nice chrome trim. Under the hood the look quite different (My impression by looking at photos from classified ads). I don't own any of them.
I don't think the two manufacturers had any kind of partnership. Olympia was the bigger one - in the late 1950s they had five times more employees than Torpedo. And the Olympia company had more commercial success and lasted longer til the early 1990s in contrast to Torpedo which was defunct by the late 1960s.
-Rainer (Triumph-Adler employee a long time ago)
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Re: Torpedo 18 and Olympia SM-3
Thank you!
“Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed.
I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty:
at least if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.”
~ Dylan Thomas
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