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Working 1960’s Olympia Splendid 33 Portable – New Ribbon, Case – Red – Made In Western Germany

Here we have a 1960’s, working Olympia Splendid 33 vintage, manual portable typewriter finished in a bright red with cream coloured keys. This typewriter really stands out and is hard to find in this colour!, complete with original matching red carry case. After some research on the serial number, it looks like the typewriter was […]

1960’s Working Olympia Splendid 33 Manual Typewriter Being Cleaned & Serviced

On the workbench today is this beautiful bright red Olympia Splendid 33 manual portable typewriter. This particular typewriter dates to 1960 or thereabouts, based on research. It arrived with sticking keys, a bell that didn’t work and the sound deadening material inside the typewriter had deteriorated to the point it was turning to dust, clogging up […]

The Typewriter

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer’s movable type. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on the paper, by means of a ribbon with dried ink struck against the paper by a […]

About Us

Welcome to Classic Typewriters, operated by Simon & Susan Davidson Simon has been collecting manual typewriters since the 1980’s and has a passion for them and he has many brands and models of typewriters in his private collection, the typewriters available on this website are from this collection, as there are simply far too many […]

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