This machine is Remington’s follow up to its very successful Model 1 portable. This example was made in May, 1928. Differences from the Model 1 include a wider panel supporting the typebars, typebar guards, and a wider carriage. The Model 1 was usually black, but the Model 2 came in at least six color combinations. [...]
Typewriters
Remington made this model using a modified version of the noiseless mechanism. The mechanism looks at first glance like a regular noiseless machine, but when using it, the clatter from the typebars striking the platen is obvious. The mechanism is adjusted for the typebars to strike like a normal typewriter does – the weights that [...]
Corona continued it’s line of light-weight portable typewriters, producing the Model 4, which differed from the Model 3 mainly in that it did not fold for transport. The Model 4 was continued after the merger with L.C. Smith and until production was stopped in 1942 for the war. The Corona 4 used Dupont’s Duco lacquer [...]
My mother took me up to her attic over the Christmas break. She had a typewriter she wanted me to get rid of. She said she thought it came from WMAZ-TV. I took it downstairs and examined it. As the ribbon was tangled, I pulled off the ribbon cover and found the name Stan Carey [...]
