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Hidalgo Moya was an American-Spanish engineer who lived in England. After first building the Moya typewriter, he set up the company to launch the down-strike design.
1902 Company founded by John Gordon Chattaway and Hidalgo Moya, trading as the Moya Typewriter Co.
1908 Became the Imperial Typewriter Co
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