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1956 Remington Office-Riter Serial # ER 29889313 1956 Remington Office-Riter typewriter, Serial # ER 29889313 James Grooms's 1956 Remington Office-Riter typewriter. 2024-03-10 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of James Grooms: 1956 Remington Office-Riter Serial # ER 29889313 No case queen this one. In fact there was no case. This was a small town reporter's machine and had seen some use. The finish was/is rough and these era Remingtons don't respond well to heavy cleaning needs in my experience. Usually I'd walk away, however, it was a package deal for every typer in the house and the pickers could only weep. With the aggregate group price it would have been a shame to split up the family anyway.

As expected, the thin crinkle was not going to clean up to a consistent color and was gone in a number of places. So I stripped it off with LT and now it looks good from 3ft in it's multi-shaded glory. A few bits from a parts machine, because this one had seen the shop table a few times. Despite being used hard and having a beat up platen, everything works exactly like you'd expect. No skips and all functions good to go Houston.

534 typeface? 10 cpi.

As usual, Remington spent a ton of money on newspaper ads. $20 more for an O-R. I wonder what their cooperate breakout was? As in firearms vs office equipment? Who carried who?

1956 Remington Office-Riter #ER 29889313

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Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
Created: 03-10-2024 at 07:45PM
Last Edit: 03-10-2024 at 07:58PM

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No case queen this one. In fact there was no case. This was a small town reporter's machine and had seen some use. The finish was/is rough and these era Remingtons don't respond well to heavy cleaning needs in my experience. Usually I'd walk away, however, it was a package deal for every typer in the house and the pickers could only weep. With the aggregate group price it would have been a shame to split up the family anyway.

As expected, the thin crinkle was not going to clean up to a consistent color and was gone in a number of places. So I stripped it off with LT and now it looks good from 3ft in it's multi-shaded glory. A few bits from a parts machine, because this one had seen the shop table a few times. Despite being used hard and having a beat up platen, everything works exactly like you'd expect. No skips and all functions good to go Houston.

534 typeface? 10 cpi.

As usual, Remington spent a ton of money on newspaper ads. $20 more for an O-R. I wonder what their cooperate breakout was? As in firearms vs office equipment? Who carried who?

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