That must be the Royal Quiet De Luxe that I liked the look of recently.. the one pictured with the mannequin in a headscarf! It looked really nice (the Royal, not the mannequin), you will have to keep us posted with how you get on with that one.

KatLondon wrote:

Hi everybody, I'm on the train back to town, having just dropped off my Hermes 2000 with The Typewriter Man in Luton. We recognised each other instantly - he was the one who looked like he spends his time working with beloved machines, and I guess I was the one sitting there with a Hermes 2000 case sticking out of a bag. We had a good look at my machine, sitting there on the seats by the ticket barrier, and then chatted for longer than his free parking probably allowed, but a lot shorter than we could have! What a thoroughly lovely guy. I don't want to overpraise as I know he reads these threads and might be embarrassed, but seriously.  He is the exact opposite of the hipster repair guys I had that run-in with at Christmas - about whom we had a very nice little gossip!

He is a smiley fellow, really interested in people, and he loves typewriters - and other machines. there is a sort of thing I think you can spot in people who have a deep interest in, and knowledge & love of a thing. Especially people who work with their hands. I come from a family of people who make things and I've always made things - and I think you just recognise one of your own tribe. This is one of the chief delights of th Typosphere, isn't it. It's about having that love of things that people have made.

All this! I've just been up there to see him with my SM2, expecting just to drop it off and hopefully hear back that it was fixable, and then sat watching in awe as he managed to fix it in around half an hour! Tom is a super nice person and you can tell he's really interested in and knows a lot about typewriters and he had a lot to tell me!

Gosh, nothing but good things to say about him! Really friendly, really knowledgeable and really fair with his prices, I'd definitely send anybody else his way.

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