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The 1926 Typewriter War of Dependence: A Battle Royal Between Britain,...
The King of England joins the fight: The battle reaches fever pitch at the British Industries Fair at White City, Shepherd's Bush, London, in mid February 1926, when Bill Mawle (with moustache, centre)...
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Days of Oz and Roses
The Oz masthead and at least one rose (or is it an Oliver carnation?)One thing all Australian media commentators were agreed upon on the TV news tonight: "Rupert doesn't take 'No' for an answer". They...
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The Original 1935 £3000 Contract Between Paillard and Bill Mawle (British...
British Typewriters founder Norman William Reginald "Bill" Mawle
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Not a baby, a Baby Empire! Happy Christmas in July, Typospherians
Christmas in July, Midwinter Christmas or Christmas in Winterrefers to Christmas-themed celebrations held in winter (usually mid to late July) in the Southern Hemisphere. In countries such as...
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80 Days in the Wilderness with a Soggy Corona 3 Portable Typewriter
On Wednesday, May 7, 1919, George Ely Russell - less than three months after being honourably discharged as a US Army First Lieutenant from the American Expeditionary Force at Fort Dix, New Jersey -...
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Typewriters For Sale - Bargain Prices
These typewriters will not be offered on eBay. Contact me directly if you are interested in any of them. Serious inquiries only. Unfortunately I no longer use PayPal either, so payment will have to be...
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Fly Me to the Moon, Let Me Type Among the Stars
To mark the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, July 20, 1969 ... my column from The Canberra Times on this day in 2009:I've mislaid the original coloured ticket. Not that Pan Am is around...
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Mrs Muir's Scheidegger Portable Hasn't Given Up the Ghost Yet
GiftedI can fully appreciate why Richard Polt likes using his Scheidegger Princess-Matic so much. It's certainly a lovely machine to type with.GoneGodawfulNico Backhaus in Cologne, the gentlemen...
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Remington Typewriters Back at the Front
France invited World War I re-enactment groups from across the world to attend the 2014 Bastille Day celebrations, as Paris marked the 100th anniversary of the Great War.Parisians and tourists alike...
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A visit to Typewriter repairman Bernd Mose at the Arndt Hans Joachim...
Excitement over news stories about the German National Security Agency's Investigation Committee considering the use of manual typewriters because of data leak concerns reached fever pitch in Berlin...
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Presidential Typewriter Quiz
1. One hundred and eighty-five years ago this week (July 23, 1829), which US President signed the letters patent for William Austin Burt's Typographer?2. Which US President worked as a 23-year-old mine...
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An Intrepid Pioneer and Her Baby Empire Portable Typewriter
Marie Byles typing on her Baby Empire at a bungalow in Sadon, Burma (now Myanmar), on August 12, 1938. This was on New Zealand's first mountaineering expedition overseas, and the party was on its way...
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This Kid Could Type!
"A child can use it - fast!!!"This Royal Bar-Lock 15 is in the Te Papa Museum in WellingtonThroughout 1905 and 1906, the New Zealand Free Lance ran this display advertisement for the Royal Bar-Lock...
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New Zealanders and their Typewriters
A young Māori woman photographed at a Remington typewriter in Christchurch in 1906 by Steffano Francis Paulovitch Webb (1880-1967). Politician Sir Ethelbert Alfred Ransom (1868-1943) with his Royal...
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Farjeon first Writer-Journalist to 'Master' Typewriter?
Benjamin Leopold FarjeonIn the early northern autumn of 1874, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) joined an exclusive club - becoming a member of that dissipate, impulsive group of 400 people who...
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Four Funerals and a Wedding
The funeral of South Australian writer Max Fatchen. His typewriter was called Ivan the Imperial.DEATH IS ALL AROUNDI've often been told that the older I get, the more I should become accustomed to...
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Why Is This Man Smiling?
This very happy man is Anthony Maras, a well-to-do South Australian film director.No wonder he is smiling. He has received three very nice typewriters from me. Plus, just for doing that, he has been...
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Hats Off to Gianni Mura and his Olivetti Lettera 32 Portable Typewriter
A Reuters story by Julien Pretot on 68-year-old Italian writer Gianni Mura using a 1976 Olivetti Lettera 32 portable typewriter while covering the just-completed Tour de France cycle race was run far...
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Three Adler Portable Typewriters on their way to a G O O D buyer
These three Adler portable typewriters - a Modell 32, a Klein-Adler 2 and a Favorit - will be flying like eagles to the home of a Melbourne typewriter collector, a wonderful young lady called Diane....
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Small, Small, Small Typewriter World
This is the image, sent from Vienna, that greeted me at 7am today, as I rose foggy headed on a foggy morning and checked my emails. It's my great friend and fellow Typospherian Georg Sommeregger, who...
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