Portable typewriters of the 1920s

Royal Model OT

Underwood Standard Portable

Remington Portable 2

Corona Four

The best portable typewriter available in the late 1920s, by a narrow margin, is the Underwood Standard Portable Typewriter with Standard Four Bank Keyboard. So what is the actual model name for this thing?

Both the Royal and the Underwood are actually from the 1930s, I know…but they both could have been bought in 1929.

Sent from my Royal Model OT and my Underwood Standard Portable

Typing filmed at 120fps

My camera has a high speed (120fps) setting, although the resolution is limited. Enjoy these slow motion videos of me typing on my Hermes 3000, Olivetti Valentine, Remington Noiseless, Remington Portable 2, Torpedo 18, and Triumph Norm.

View them all and more at my youtube channel, X Over It.

It is said that the Torpedo is one of the fastest typewriters. I think that the footage backs this claim up because the typebars seem to be a bit snappier than on the other typewriters! (or am I just wishing?)

Travelling Companion

I tried photographing my typecast instead of scanning it in preparation for any travel typecasts, and I am more than pleased with the results, even in my poor lighting.

Typed with my Remington Portable 2

Green/Green Remington Portable

1928 Remington Portable 2 V103876
"Green/Green"

You can see for yourself that my camera hates low light! (not my new one yet)

I completely lost the "My Typewriters" page on my blog a few nights ago. That was extremely frustrating because it was due to a Blogger interface ambiguity rather than necessarily my own error... and of course there is no undo. So I am going to start it from scratch with photos taken with my new camera, so it will be a while before it is complete again. But probably the most irritating loss was the serial numbers and links I had to the feature typecasts...finding those again and laying them out would have been a task, but thanks to the new Typewriter Database I have most of them saved! But I do not complain, I'm just explaining why it's gone! XD It will be a good thing in the end when it's all up to date with nicer, newer photos. Some of my typers have even been cleaned up a bit since then.

Sent from my Green/Green Remington Portable 2.

Does the word green look weird to you at this point? It does for me. o.O