Bremerton Typewriter Company

We are Bremerton Typewriter Company

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Hello everyone in the Type-O-Sphere, we are changing the business name to better reflect the work we do. Since 1947 Bremerton Office Machine Company services and repairs all sort of office machines. We appreciate the legacy of the work to keep all things OFFICE MACHINE running. Heck, we still work on machines from the past! Now.  .  .  we service and repair typewriters. Yep, we are pretty much focused on these typing machines. The business … [Read more...]

2025 Puget Sound Typewriter Enthusiasts calendar PHOTOS

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Hello everyone. It is time to submit typewriter photos for the annual Puget Sound Typewriter Enthusiasts calendar! All contributors whose photos are selected for the calendar get a copy for free! Please send your photos to Heidi Newitt via Messenger or email them to pstypewriters@gmail.com . Send submissions to Heidi by October 20, 2024. Make sure they’re high-resolution (at least 1 MB). If the resolution isn’t high enough, we will … [Read more...]

Corona 4 Purple and Gold Typewriter

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This Corona 4 portable is a customer machine in for service. A purple and gold crackle finish, is perfect for that person attending the University of Washington. This typewriter is in very nice condition complete with the case and manual. The customer had us put PURPLE ribbon on the machine. Love it. C5A02203 … [Read more...]

We’ve Got GOLD In Them Thar Hills

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I've seen plenty Royal Dreyfuss Quiet DeLuxe typewriters that are the gold metal plated anniversary edition. Well . . . in photos on the interwebs. Pretty snazzy. I've never had one actually walk into the shop until today. Our friend Ray Montgomery in Astoria ran into some nice folks who shared this gold typewriter with him. Well he got all giddy on them. Got those folks all excited about what they possessed. I'm certainly happy they … [Read more...]

1958 Vertical Script Smith-Corona

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Greg brought us this 1958 Vertical Script Smith-Corona for a new platen, paper rollers and a cleaning and tune up. I like how common the model that hides such type face delights. You don't see many Vertical Script type faces. I think Smith-Corona did a fine job with this one. The new platen made a huge difference in print quality and reduced niose. 5T747949X … [Read more...]

This 1928 Remington Typewriter has Wings

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This customer machine is a hefty thirty inch wide beast. From the Mason County Historical Society, the typewriter needed a good cleaning, new rubber feet and the paper bale rollers needed replacing. It took a bit of maneuvering at the solvent cleaning station to get everything cleaned. Man this guy is heavy. Screw this one to your desk top or it will FLY AWAY! … [Read more...]

Electric Typewriters and Cuss Words

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Electric typewriters. I spend a lot of time with these things. We talk. We sit. I cuss tons of swear words. They listen. I’ve noticed more and more electric typewriters are coming to the shop for service in worse condition. Most are driven by belts that drive a power roller or in the case of Selectric typewriters a rotating shaft. You press a key top, attached to a key lever, that drops a latch that connects with the spinning roller that causes … [Read more...]

1941 Smith-Corona Portable Music Writer

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Look at what came into the shop for service and a new platen. A 1941 Smith-Corona 3A Sterling Speedline portable typewriter with a custom music keyboard. This is well before the Music Print Corporation came into existence.  People still craved typewriters to do specific jobs and ordered custom layouts. I thought, as I was looking at this beauty, if Taylor Swift used a typewriter to craft her art. . . This would be the one. Lyrics, notes, … [Read more...]

Mr. Montgomery – CATS, yes this is about cats

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Occasionally, I publish some of Mr. Montgomery's musings edited only for grammatical errors. Since it was Mr. Montgomery's birthday this week, here is another of his reflections of earlier times. Reminiscences and other STUFF, Subject:     C A T S  -  Or about CATS in General  Well. here I am, sitting up in the middle of the night, suddenly inspired to writing about CATS I have known, and about CATS in general.  I don't know what prompted … [Read more...]