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| The SALTER was produced by George Salter & Company beginning around the end of the 1890's, and like some other machines went through a period of rapid design and feature changes before the machine was produced in number, over time, in a stable variant. The company operated normally in other manufacturing circles (precision scales) but conducted manufacture of typewriters for about twenty years. The factory was located in West Bromwich, England, which would go on to see further typewriter production in a conventional design beginning in 1924; see 'British Empire.' |
| SALTER STANDARD NO. 6 Tilman Elster collection This machine was brought to market around the turn of the century. Serial number 3553. |
| SALTER STANDARD NO. 9 Tilman Elster collection Wide-carriage version of the No. 9 Salter, with serial number 395 and which was produced around 1909. |
| SALTER STANDARD NO. 10 Tilman Elster collection Serial 16019, also built around 1909. |
| SALTER VISIBLE Tilman Elster collection In 1913, a heavy redesign of the machine was made to allow competitive opportunity when compared with other machines on the market. The machine was altered to a four-bank single-shift keyboard layout, and the type basket was moved with an angle of inclination forward and more rearward-mounted segment, to allow better view of the typing. Note that the carriage is also elevated as compared with previous models. Serial number H31656. |
| SALTER VISIBLE Tilman Elster collection Serial number J32812. Note also the changes in the frame, which has dispensed with the old-fashioned shape and converted to cast round legs with rubber feet. There was more than one variety of machine such as this, with inclined type basket and similar appearance. None was really successful, and this helps explain why the factory space used to built the Salter from the 1890's forward was building conventional front-strike machines by 1924. |