Latter-Day Hermes Typewriters: Machines, Brochures and Secret Typewriter Business

Mention of electronic and electric typewriters seems to have a way of galvanising Typospherians. My post the other day on typewriter wedges drew so many in-depth, mostly anti-electric comments that I was in half a mind not to admit to owning this Hermes 101 (a "luxury" version of the 1968 Hermes 10 Compact, below).

GTHawk Collection, via George Sommeregger's Swiss Typewriter Page

Indeed, until I uncovered the stack of wedges in a corner of my lounge, I didn't even know I owned an Hermes 101. Or, to be more precise, I had completely forgotten I owned one. I still have absolutely no idea how or when I acquired it.
As I pulled out the wedges for photographing, I noticed a very large case hidden in against the wall. Stupidly, I reached out to lift it with my bung arm. It weighed a ton. I was amazed to see what was inside it.

Sadly, I haven't yet managed to get it working. I can't find a way to remove the mask to check the wiring (it has an Australian three-point plug), but from I can see of it the motor coil seems OK. Maybe it's just a loose wire - if only I could get at the connections! I feel sure it will type nicely.
Finding the Hermes 101, however, was still productive, as I was motivated to dig out and scan all the latter-day Hermes typewriter literature that had been sent to me some years ago by North Queensland collector Colin Jones (author of Demise of the Typewriter), at one time a Hermes agent. Some other brochures came from Kennards of Canberra. I also came across an old Hermes 3000 ad which mentions Brisbane!