From my personal collection, here is a random selection of letters sent out from those manufacturers of our beloved writing machines.
The Underwood letter, to me, is by far the most interesting solely due to the outstanding way in which they ask the customer for payment. They don't heckle, they simply state the facts in a most professional manner which many modern corporations could learn from.
I wonder if these three were typed on a Remington, Oliver, and Underwood respectively!
ReplyDeleteI suppose it would depend on whether these letters came from the main offices of their respective companies or some far out one man operation in the middle of nowhere. I can assume it the latter would use whatever they had availible, but the former would only use their own machines. Imagine the insane publicity if it came to light that Remington used Underwoods to do its business work.
DeleteIdle browsing, stumbled on these letters (again) - just noticed that the 1916 Remington letter has 'Portable' in its sidebar list of features/offerings. At its lightest his would refer to the Junior, still not quite feather-weight.
ReplyDeleteThey must have been very eager indeed to be able to claim something 'portable' against the meteoric rise of light-weight 3-banks :-)
(Oh, and thank you for scanning & sharing.)