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Underwood Standard Portable Typewriter

Modell	Underwood Standard Portable Typewriter	model
Typ	Kleinschreibmaschine / portable	type
Konstrukteur / Erfinder	?	inventor
Hersteller	Underwood	manufacturer
Produktionsort		place of production
Seriennummer (Baujahr)	105739 (1923) (1)	serial number (year made)
Tastatur	dreireihige französische Tastatur (AZERTY) / 3-bank French keyboard (AZERTY)	keyboard
gebaut von - bis	1919 (2. 4) - 1929 (2, 4)	production years
Geschichte	originally Sammlung HB	history
Gesamtstückzahl (alle Modelle)	?	numbers made (all models)

Underwood

See how it works! Three positions: (normal) (shift) (number)

3 instead of 4 bank also means that there is 3 symbols on each typebar

Underwood

Underwood logo featuring the portable 3-bank writer, taken from the paper tray of n° 156238 / 156450

Underwood Portable ad

The Tech, Friday, November 4, 1921, p.3 . Internet source: (5)

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Quellen / sources:

(2) typewriter.be, Underwood 3-bank portable, http://typewriter.be/underwoodportable3.htm (visited 29.8.2010)

(3) W. Davis, Underwood Portable Typewriter Gallery, 1920 - 1963, http://machinesoflovinggrace.com/ptf/UnderwoodPortableGallery.html (visited 29.8.2010)

(4) W. Davis, ... a very brief look at some UNDERWOOD portables, http://machinesoflovinggrace.com/ptf/underwood.html (visited 29.8.2010)

Created 29.8.2010 - last update 29.8.2010