https://www.facebook.com/groups/721704878218903/posts/3068179956904705

Reddy Kilowatt as a custom slug on a Royal KHM.

https://clickamericana.com/topics/science-technology/vintage-portable-manual-typewriters

The Smith-Coronas were offered in 4 different colors.

The Remington Quiet-Riter was eventually offered in white sand, desert sage, mist green, and French gray,

The Royal HH was offered in 6 colors including green, pink, and blue. Brown was the most ubiquitous.

Why bother with dozens of big standards in your office when you can have a portable or two that you can move and which are always in demand?

100% The Practical Magazine of Efficient Management, November 1916, Volume 7, No. 45, p49. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Management/hqj2SD6khL4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=corona&pg=RA4-PA49&printsec=frontcover

VINTAGE 1958 COMMERCIAL - REMINGTON RAND - QUIET WRITER TYPEWRITER w/FABULOUS FOUR

Origin of Royal's Vogue by [[x over it]]

Remington Quie- Riter Typewriter 1955

"students who use typewriters get up to 38% better grades."

"gives book reports and themes a professional look"

gendered sales technique - "girls particularly appreciate" the easy change ribbon system...

VINTAGE 1958 COMMERCIAL - REMINGTON RAND - OFFICE-RITER TYPEWRITER

Up to 10 carbons!<br /> Cuts clear, clean stencils 149.50 plus carrying case additional<br /> $1.50 a week payable monthly

Successful Secretary Presented by Royal Office Typewriters. A Thomas Craven Film Corporation Production, 1966. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If5b2FiDaLk.

Script: Lee Thuna<br /> Educational Consultant: Catharine Stevens<br /> Assistant Director: Willis F. Briley<br /> Design: Francisco Reynders<br /> Director & Producer: Carl A. Carbone<br /> A Thomas Craven Film Corporation Production

"Mother the mail"

gendered subservience

"coding boobytraps"

"I think you'll like the half sheet better. It is faster." —Mr. Typewriter, timestamp

A little bit of the tone of "HAL" from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). This is particularly suggestive as H.A.L. was a one letter increment from I.B.M. and the 1966 Royal 660 was designed to compete with IBM's Selectric

This calm voice makes suggestions to a secretary while H.A.L. does it for a male astronaut (a heroic figure of the time period). Suddenly the populace feels the computer might be a bad actor.

"We're living in an electric world, more speed and less effort."—Mr. Typewriter<br /> (techno-utopianism)

OlympiaSong

Olympia typewriter song [sound recording]. - Record details - Library of Congress Catalog <br /> accessed on 2026-06-29T13:10:26

See also: Olympia Typewriter Song

https://archive.org/details/RemingtonAstrologicalKeyboard

https://archive.org/details/RemingonLargeType

https://oldbobsoldtypewriters.com/portfolio-item/1955-royal-quiet-de-luxe-blue/

Royal Quiet De Luxe in ankony Blue (AB)

https://typewriterdatabase.com/1969-olivetti-valentine.24573.typewriter via James Grooms

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10163593836864678/

If typists were Robots

Resemblance to disaster girl?

reply to https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10161712887224678/

to Steve Clancy Zach Hubbird Jean Brunet

I'm curious what the sourcing is on your differentiation of the two models? Are there manuals, advertising, or other details to back up the differences? From what I can see, the phrase "Rhythm Touch" seems to have been an advertising tag for the Underwood SS which started a few months after production of the SS began and there wasn't any difference in them other than the advertising tag.

Robert Messenger has some scant history on the machine and the differences, primarily due to a redesign at the time, at https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2012/11/on-this-day-in-typewriter-history_25.html. The primary change from the S to the SS seems to have been a move from a carriage shift to a basket shift and so it seems somewhat fitting that Underwood uses the phrase "Rhythm Touch" as an advertising gimmick much like Smith-Corona were doing with their "Floating Shift" marketing.

Generally standards at the time were not differentiated by different trim lines as standards had all the bells and whistles for office use (potentially aside from custom use cases like decimal tabulators or extra wide carriage). Meanwhile all the trim variations were generally seen in the portable market geared toward home use rather than office. This would seem to support the idea that there's only the SS and "Rhythm Touch" is only an advertising tag line as the SS was newly introduced in January of '46 and "Rhythm Touch" appears around July '46.

There's also some discussion on the TWdB in the commentary at https://typewriterdatabase.com/1950-underwood-ss.23202.typewriter which may add to the question.

I'm curious to hear everyone's thoughts on the idea/thesis that the only model is the Underwood SS which is being marketed as the "Rhythm Touch" or evidence to the contrary to refute the claim.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3565042706976081&set=pcb.1249358224049616

Signed card and headshot of Natalie wood in front of a blue series 5 Smith-Corona Silent-Super.

via https://reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/1rvqt0e/1943_royal_typewriter_ad_imploring_people_to_not/

Royal QDLs from '56-59, though advertisement more likely from '57-58 due to the white.

Royal Green, Royal Star White, Royal Beige, Royal Gray, Royal Red, Royal Turquoise,

Add specifies the QDL is available in Canterbury Pica or Canterbury Elite.

https://www.atticpaper.com/proddetail.php?prod=1935-royal-portable-typewriter-ad-wm-steig

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4770669677/?multi_permalinks=10163215089874678

Description of journalist who had blurry typing because he bottomed out the keys rather than hit them like hot coals.

Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter<br /> by [[Josh Jones]] in Open Culture<br /> accessed on 2025-10-13T23:01:35

https://archive.org/details/typewriterephemera

Typewriter ephemera on the Internet Archive<br /> Collected by Otto aka u/Koponewt

https://books.google.com/books?id=HkYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA27&dq=royal+quiet+deluxe&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihtZfiksKNAxUskYkEHTWlFSwQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=royal%20quiet%20deluxe&f=false

https://ohyouprettyoldthings.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/a-review-of-janine-vangools-the-typewriter-a-graphic-history-of-the-beloved-machine/

In the late 1950s Royal released versions of the Royal Quiet De Luxe in 6 different colors.

Film: Typing on Robotron by [[Joe Van Cleave]]

You've got to love the "dancing hands" portion of the film which was such a product of it's timeperiod.