https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1s7eiav/table_score/<br /> Vanpe, Inc. of Chicago manufactured typewriter tables with drop leaves and drawers.
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Nakajima All (中島オール) went bankrupt back in 2019. (Not to be confused with the Nakajima Aircraft Company.) https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO41025530X00C19A2X12000/ https://newswitch.jp/p/17807 Archive of the now-defunct website:(https://web.archive.org/web/20180816074211/http://www.nakajima-all.co.jp/) Someone might've bought the equipment from the Nakajima All factory in Indonesia and is still pumping out new ones (since the electronic typewriters Swintec sells are rebadged Nakajima All ones), but I'm not completely sure.
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The bankruptcy of a typewriter manufacturer mirrors the path of Japan's manufacturing industry | <br /> by [[Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun]] News Switch<br /> accessed on 2026-03-03T11:01:57
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Nakajima All Precision (Sakaki Town, Nagano Prefecture) filed for bankruptcy on January 25, 2019.
Typewriter maker fails to change direction and goes bankrupt<br /> by [[日本経済新聞社]] on Nikkei<br /> accessed on 2026-03-03T10:59:23
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Godrej & Boyce's Milind Dukle tells the Business Standard: "From the early 2000 onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters stopped production, except us. Till 2009, we used to produce 10,000 to 12,000 machines a year. "We stopped production in 2009 and were the last company in the world to manufacture office typewriters. Currently, the company has only 500 machines left. The machines are of Godrej Prima, the last typewriter brand from our company, and will be sold at a maximum retail price of Rs 12,000."
The World's Last Typewriter Factory Closes in India - Business Insider<br /> by [[Gus Lubin]] for Business Insider accessed on 2025-08-01T09:26:55
Godrej & Boyce manufactured typewriters to 2009 and were selling off their final machines in 2011.
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The final typewriter manufacturers still out there: - Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company (you really don't want one: https://boffosocko.com/2025/06/09/the-typewriter-you-probably-dont-want-to-buy/)<br /> - Nakajima still puts out daisy wheel word processors - Swintec still makes machines, but primarily clear bodied ones for prisons
The last of the serious manual typewriter manufacturers included: - Brother, who stopped manufacturing machines in Wrexham, Wales in 2012 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20413234 - Godrej Typewriter quit manufacturing in 2009 and was finishing out the last of their stock in 2011 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/world-s-last-typewriter-plant-stops-production-1.1090626
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Typewriters Still Find a Few Key Customers by [[Laura Kusisto]]
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Brother International Corp., a Japan-based company with U.S. headquarters in Bridgewater, N.J., still sells typewriters, although unlike Swintec its business is diverse, including everything from printers to sewing machines.
Brother was still manufacturing typewriters in 2013.
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Swintec is one of the last surviving typewriter companies in the U.S., although these days its machines are made in Japan and Indonesia.
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The 2023 Rover Typewriter: Worst Machine Ever? by [[Typewriter Chicago]]
I know Michaels was carrying the We R Memory Keepers typewriter, but hadn't heard about Home Depot carrying them.
Rover made by Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company still making typewriters (bad quality control, plastic, poor alignment). These are variously rebadged as: - the Rover - the Royal Epoch - We R Memory Keepers (Michaels, Home Depot) - Royal Classic (metal shell) - Maplefield (Target, Walmart, Michaels) - The Oliver Typewriter Company
Will Davis has determined that they're all based on the Olympia Carina.
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In America, the National Office Machine Dealer Association periodically published the Blue Book, a catalog with type samples and other information about the industry.
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Around 1960 Smith-Corona bought out British Typewriters Ltd. (aka Empire) in West Bromwich, England and used the plant to make a version of the Smith-Corona Skyriter which they sold under the Empire name.
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"The factory cannot only look at the profit index. It must distribute wealth, culture, services, democracy. I think factory for man, not man for factory, right? The divisions between capital and labour, industry and agriculture, production and culture must be overcome. Sometimes, when I work late I see the lights of the workers working double shifts, the clerks, the engineers, and I feel like going to pay my respects." —Adriano Olivetti
quote likely from Incontro con la Olivetti (Giorgio Ferroni, 1950) via the Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa
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http://mytypewriter.com/eProducts/Ribbon_List_102806.pdf
A somewhat handy chart of typewriter ribbons by make and model. Will require some work to puzzle out the standards however.
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Is There a Typewriter Revival? by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
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