| European Typewriters / SPAIN |
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| Model C85 Will Davis collection This machine carries a branding for Commodore Business Machines of Canada. |
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| Model A85 Will Davis collection This example is labeled "Florida" for export to the US. Normally, the machine carried the brand "Amaya." Both machines seem to date to the 1960's. |
| There was an earlier company, Guillermo Truninger SA which license-built essentially the same machine in Madrid. These are yet unfound, but are thought to resemble the C85. You can learn more about this family by clicking here. |
| There seem to have been very few typewriter designs which originated in Spain. Designs from other countries have, however, been produced in quite large numbers there. Collector Fransu Marin brings to our attention the firm of Hispano-Olivetti, SA, which was formed by Olivetti of Italy on January 29, 1929 for the purpose of producing Olivetti-pattern machines there. The company set up its offices and plant in Barcelona, and operated there through 1980. He mentions that it had a work force of some 3500 people. Hispano-Olivetti was the first subsidiary company set up by Olivetti in a foreign land; British Olivetti would follow in 1947, followed in 1959 by the Olivetti purchase of stock control of Underwood in the USA (which it merged in October 1963, creating a new Olivetti-Underwood Corporation.) Hispano-Olivetti also absorbed a smaller Spanish company, La Rapida, which had made both typewriters and sewing machines, following the end of the Spanish Civil War. Click here for Hispano-Olivetti gallery. |
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| Industrial Mecanografica SA of Bilbao, Spain produced machines in the second, later "Euro-Portables" or Patria family. |
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| REGIA Fransu Marin collection Undocumented portable produced in Valencia; built by Talleres Alonso S.L. and likely produced in the late 1940's. |
| Right: decal on the rear of the machine. Below: Badge on the front of the machine. |
| Fransu passes along the facts that the name "Regia" was filed for Spanish patent coverage in 1944, and received it in 1948. |