- Shangas
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For a man famous for his speeches, you'd think Winston Churchill owned a typewriter. But actually he dictated most of his speeches to his secretary. This Remington Noiseless, at the Imperial War Museum, was donated by the family of Churchill's first postwar secretary: 
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- Amelia
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One of my favorite authors, Flannery O'Connor:
All photos-- Flannery O'Connor Collection at Georgia College & State University
Royal? Can anyone be provide more specific information as to model, year etc.
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It's a 2nd-Generation Royal Portable Typewriter. Ca. 1930.
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"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon" - Robert Benchley
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No no no.
The Model O came out later.
This is the Model O: 
I think they're both extremely beautiful typewriters. I'd be proud to own either of them. Possibly even both!
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"I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit" - Sir Pelham Grenville "P.G." Wodehouse
"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon" - Robert Benchley
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By the way, Amelia, that desk in the photographs looks like a very beautiful vintage typewriter desk. I'd love to have something like that in my bedroom!
Aah, one day, maybe.
The deskfront lifts up to reveal a typing 'well' or 'platform' underneath. That's where you put your typewriter when you use it. And then you simply lift the deskfront back OVER the typewriter to cover it up when you don't use it. And you have a whole clear and empty writing-space for other stuff. Ingenius design. But sadly, not easy to find these days. Somehow, you'd think people would continue making that desk-form, if for no other reason than that they'd be useful for laptop computers.
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"I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit" - Sir Pelham Grenville "P.G." Wodehouse
"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon" - Robert Benchley
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Shangas wrote:
By the way, Amelia, that desk in the photographs looks like a very beautiful vintage typewriter desk. I'd love to have something like that in my bedroom!
Aah, one day, maybe.
The deskfront lifts up to reveal a typing 'well' or 'platform' underneath. That's where you put your typewriter when you use it. And then you simply lift the deskfront back OVER the typewriter to cover it up when you don't use it. And you have a whole clear and empty writing-space for other stuff. Ingenius design. But sadly, not easy to find these days. Somehow, you'd think people would continue making that desk-form, if for no other reason than that they'd be useful for laptop computers.
It is a very beautiful desk indeed. It is O'Connor's actual desk and is on display at her alma mater.
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The deskfront lifts up to reveal a typing 'well' or 'platform' underneath.
Here's one in action:
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Hey Uwe, I too am a huge Bond and Hammett fan. I recently picked up an Olympia SF like the one in the photo of Fleming at Goldeneye and I have to say that it's a pretty rattly machine to type on. Shame, really. Oh well, the hunt continues for a reasonably-priced late 1940s Royal Quiet De Luxe, I suppose.
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