Salter Typewriter Co
of 40 Holborn Viaduct, London
1895 George Salter and Co produced the first English-made typewriter - the British Empire, a down-strike typewriter which had been designed by a Londoner, James S.Foley.[1]
1898 Patent on "Improvements in or relating to Typewriting Machines" by George Salter, Thomas Philip Bache, John Henry Birch, Henry Thomas Salter.
1900 George Salter and Co made the Salter typewriter[2]
1909 The Salter company of West Bromwich received a repeat order for 3000 typewriters from Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight[3]
1923 Salters discontinued making a typewriter: the Salter-Visible, carrying the Salter name.
Between 1923-29 George Salter and Co. in West Bromwich were making British Blicks (Blick-Bars), British and British Empire typewriters for the Rimingtons' Blick Typewriter, British Typewriters and Empire Typewriter companies respectively (the last a separate trade mark taken out in 1920)[4]
1926 There were 3 firms in Britain that produced typewriters[5] - presumably Imperial Typewriter Co, Salter Typewriter Co and Bar-Lock Typewriters Ltd
1928 The sales manager of British Typewriters Ltd announced that HMSO was ordering British Empire typewriters made at West Bromwich which would be used in place of foreign made machines[6]
1935 George Salter and Co sold the sales and manufacturing rights to its typewriter business to British Typewriters Ltd, who set up in a former grocery warehouse in Victoria Street to produce a new typewriter known as the Baby Empire, with the slogan "No Higher Than A Matchbox".[7]