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Donated from Mrs. Mai Cong, Santa Ana, CA on 3/5/2018
Vietnamese Heritage Museum Collections.
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Summary
Metal frame finished in yellow sitting on metal baseboard with plastic covered. Cylindrical platen. Fifty typebars in fan configuration. This machine uses a ‘folding typebar’ mechanism. When the typewriter is stored in its case the typebars lie flat. Prior to typing a lever on the right-hand side of the machine is pushed to raise the typebars to an angle of about 45 degrees. From this raised position the typebars swing forward and down to strike the ink ribbon, paper and platen. This machine can be used for Vietnamese and be able to type five tonal marks and diacritical.
Physical Description
Portable typewriter of the type-wheel class, manufactured by the Olympia Manufacturing Company, German. This machine model is the Splendid 33.
