of 77 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4. Telephone: Central 6263 and 6264. Cables: "Untouched, Cent, London". (1929)
British Typewriters Ltd of Queen Street, West Bromwich. Telephone: West Bromwich 0781. Cables: "Typewriter, West Bromwich". (1947)
1895 George Salter and Co produced the first English typewriter - the British Empire.
WWI Production of typewriters was suspended during the War.
1926 One of 3 firms in Britain which produced typewriters[1]
1929 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of the British Empire Typewriter for all classes of work with special Patent Tabulator for Invoice Work. No. 1 and No.2 Model Empire Typewriters. (Stand No. R.16) [2]
1935 Production of the Hermes under licence.
1936 Salters sold the rights to the typewriter business.
1939 Patent - Improvements in duplicating attachments for typewriters. [3]
1940 Patent - Improvements in and relating to ribbon mechanism for typewriting, accounting, billing or like machines. [4]
1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of "Empire" Typewriters and Accessories. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. B. 1433) [5]
1958 Acquired by Smith-Corona Marchant Inc of the USA[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Apr 13, 1926
- ↑ 1929 British Industries Fair p29
- ↑ [1] Wikipatents
- ↑ [2] Wikipatents
- ↑ 1947 British Industries Fair p44
- ↑ The Times, Aug 28, 1958
- European Typewriters [3]