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Royal was one of the longest-lived typewriter manufacturers. They introduced their first typewriter, the Royal 1, in 1906 and did not stop manufacturing tyepwriters.
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Allen Racer Radio Rally Z 20 Ranger (Olympia) Rapid Rapid (Fox) Rapid (Juwel) Rapide Referent Super Reff Regent Regent (Minerva) Regia Regina Reliable Reliance Rembrandt Remer Remington Remington (Brother) Remington (Torpedo) Remington Monarch Remington Rand Remstar Remtor Reporters Special Resko Revolution Rex Rex (Harris) Rex Visible Rexpel Rheinita Rheinita-Record Rheinmetall Rival Roberts Ninety Robotron Rochester Rofa Roland Rooy Rover Roxy Roy-Type Royal Royal (Maritsa) Royal (Messa) Royal (Nakajima) Royal (Silver-Seiko) Royal (Triumph-Adler) Royal-Barlock Royal-Express Sabaudia Sabb Saleem Salter Sarafan Saturn Saxonia Schade Schapiro Scheidegger (Adler) Scheidegger (Keller und Knappich) Scheidegger (Olivetti) SCM Scripta Sears Sears (Brother) Sears (Messa) Sears (Royal) Secor Sedic Seidel & Naumann Selekta Senator Senta Sharp Shilling Shimade Sholes & Glidden Sholes Visible Siegfried Siemag Silma Silver Reed Silver-Seiko SIM Simplex Simpson's (Oliver) Simpsons (Consul) Simpsons (Imperial) Simtype Simtype (Montana) Singer Smith Corona Smith Premier Soemtron Speedwriter Sphinx Standard Folding Star Star (Halda) Starlet Stearns Stella Steno-Picht Sterling Sterling-Continental-Standard Sterling-Siemag Stoewer Stolzenberg-Fortuna Stott Sture Stylotyp Sun Sundstrand (Antares) Superba Supermetall Surety Swift Swift-Rekord Swintec Swintec (Nakajima) Swissa Talbos Talleres Alonso Tell Tempotype The Society Thueringen B Tip Tip TippCo Titania Tops Torpedo Tower Tower (Consul) Toyo Tradition Transatlantic Traveller Triumph Triumph Perfect Visible Turia Typatune Typen Typo Typo Typorium Ujlaki Ukraine Ultima Unda Underwood Underwood (Antares) Underwood-Elliot-Fisher Union Unique UNIS Universal Unknown Urania Urdu Ursula VariTyper Vasanta Vendex Venus Victor Victoria Victorieuse Video Viking Viking (Eaton's) Viking (Montana) Vira Virotyp Visigraph Vittoria Volcan Vornado Vornado Voss Vultur WAG Wallstreet Waltons Wanamaker Wanderer Warner Waterloo Waverly Waverly (Maritsa) Webster Wedgefield Wellington Wellon Weltblick Western Auto (Brother) Western Stamping Co Westphalia WH Smith (Silver Reed) Wiedmer Williams Wilson Winsor Wizard TrueType Woodstock World World-Blick Write-Easy Xerox Yanalif Yost Yu Ess Zentronik Zeta Zeta (Consul) Royal Typewriter Serial Numbers Also known as • Royal (Triumph-Adler) • Sears (Royal) • Singer Serial Number Table Last Edited: 07/1/15 04:35 NOTE: dates shown are JAN 1 unless noted, so the serial number shown is the *first* serial number produced the given year. Exceptions are serial numbers preceded by "up to"(where you can assume that the numbers reported in that subsection are DECEMBER 31, END OF YEAR NUMBERS) or rows where a month is given in the month column. If the serial number is shown as a range (xxxx-xxxx) it indicates that we know the entire range of serial numbers for the given year. Royal-Typewriter Co. Inc., New York, U.S.A. Company Founded 1904 18 Platen Diameter Standards & Electrics 1.485" (37.72mm) except Model Superia: 1.751" (44.5mm) Portables: Models O,OT,P,RA,AG,A,B,C,CG,RF,F,RC,E,ES,J,JC,BJ,CD,U,D,UR,UB: 1.272" (32.31mm) Models Royalite & Dart: 1.259" (32mm) Models Royaluxe 300,325,350,400,425,450, Diana: 1.271" (32.3mm) 24 Models and s/n Y M D Remarks Ref. Standard Manual Electrics (introduced 1950) serial numbers first run up to 16000, then in late 1951, begin running concurrent with Standard Manuals. Rebuilt Royals carry a "Y" prefix, with "SY" segment shift, "CSY" Chrome segment shift. Example: Y35-107833 is a 1935 rebuilt with Carriage Shift. 18 1 1906 Nos. 2, 3 and 4 had only larger carriages, than No. 1 18 1000 1907 18 4000 1908 18 14000 1909 18 35000 1910 Model No. 5 started, Nos. 6, 7, 8 had only larger carriages, than No. 5 17,18 58000 1911 17 85000 1912 17 142000 1913 17 175000 1914 Model No. 10 started - first serial: 173000, Double Glass Panels began at 212000 17,18 205000 1915 17 234000 1916 17 279000 1917 Variable Line Spacer began at 282000 17,18 336000 1918 17 394000 1919 17 478000 1920 17 567000 1921 "QX" Prefix, first serial: 600000 17,18 641000 1922 17 678000 1923 17 760000 1924 17 848000 1925 17 940000 1926 17 1036000 1927 17 1134000 1928 17 1236000 1929 17 1348000 1930 17 1435000 1931 First segment shift at 1466500 17,18 1525000 1932 "S" Model is prior to "H" model 17,18 1554000 1933 17 1617000 1934 "H" and "KH" in 1664000 to 1850000 ("K" means Keyset) 17,18 1723000 1935 "KHM" started at 1850000. Initals mean: K - Key Set, HM - H Model, DT - Keyset, KDTHM - H Model 5 key Keyset. 17,18 1847000 1936 17 2005000 1937 17 2178000 1938 "KHT" fall of 1938, "KHM" Magic Margin began at 2273522. (REMINGTON Examined #2250058 in Oct '38) 17,18 2320000 1939 17 2494000 1940 17 2681000 1941 17 2901000 1942 17 3026000 1943 Production Halted: World War II 17 3026000 1944 Production Halted: World War II 17 3037000 1945 17 3094000 1946 17 3273000 1947 17 3550000 1948 17 3865000 1949 Model "KMG" Announced 2/10/49, first grey model, began at 3850000 17,18 4100000 1950 Royal Electric introduced Jan 1950. Serial numbers of first electrics ran in a special series up to 16000 and then were sequenced to match regular Royal Standards in late 1951. 17,18 4360000 1951 17 4688000 1952 "HH" Model, standard 43-key keyboard began at 4850000. Announced around 8/1/52. (HHP is Pica, HHE is Elite) 17,18 4990000 1953 17 5248000 1954 17 5500000 1955 17 5787000 1956 17 6037000 1957 17 6393000 1958 17 6650000 1959 17 6950000 1960 17 7100000 1961 17 7300000 1962 17 7500000 1963 17 7775000 1964 20 8060000 1965 20 8290000 1966 20 8590000 1967 20 8870000 1968 20 9192000 1969 20 9432000 1970 20 9694000 1971 20 Electric Royal Electric introduced Jan 1950. Serial numbers of first electrics ran in a special series up to 16000 and then were sequenced to match regular Royal Standards in late 1951. 18 Diana Portable (electric) 13365 1953 6 22020 1954 6 32144 1955 6 37141 1956 6 43336 1957 6 64701 1958 6 81475 and over 1959 6 Portables Royal Portable, Models: P, OT, O (no model name) A, AG [1950-52], RA[1953-55], AB [1956 blue], AC [1956 charcoal], AR [1956-57 red], AG [1956-57 green], AD [1957 grey/blue], AE [1957 tan], AY [1957 yellow], AP [1958 pink], AW [1958 white] (Quiet DeLuxe) B [1938-1941], RB [1956-1958], A1(?) [1965-1968] (Aristocrat) C, CG (Arrow) CD, RF, F (Companion, Commander) RC (Keystone) 2A (Futura 800) 2C (Futura 400) SA (Safari) CR (Caravan) CU (Custom) RX (Royaluxe) SB (Sabre) 1 1926 'P' Model introduced. 17 6000 1927 17 56500 1928 17 114500 1929 17 183800 1930 17 260000 1931 'P' Model discontinued. 17 308600 1932 'O' Model introduced. 17 324900 1933 17 354231 1934 17 409082 1935 "De Luxe" 'A' Model introduced starting with serial number 471,000 and featuring nickel-chromium plating and a longer line space lever. 17,7 493068 1936 17 602939 1937 17 724093 1938 "Quiet" 'A' Model begins, 'B' Model (later called "Aristocrat", but in 1938, just a souped up 'O' Model) begins. 'O' Model discontinued. 17 807493 1939 "De Luxe" and "Quiet" 'A' Models become the "Quiet De Luxe". 'B' Model redesigned as "Aristocrat". 'C' Model "Arrow" Begins. 17 926862 1940 'CD' Model "Companion" begins. 17 995728 1941 Dec 7, 1941: US enters WWII, 'A', 'B' and 'CD' Models halted. 17 1107503 1942 In 1942 Royal produces mainly US Navy Radio Mill "Arrow" 'C' Models. Approx 56,000 portables made, likely mostly for military use, 1942 to 1943 17 1152000 1943 17,22 production halted 1944 All portable production halts. 17 production halted 1945 17 1164182 1946 Production of civilian-market 'A' and 'C' Model portables re-starts. 17 1275456 1947 17 1473968 1948 Shell re-designed by Henry Dreyfuss, Squared shell, Grey and Black with oval crome inserts for front levers. Keytops change from round glass to 'tombstone' glass with chromed rims. 17 1741468 1949 Shell color reconfigured in the beginning months of 1949, shell now all-grey. Gold-plated Anniversary 'A' Models produced. 17 1940834 1950 Shell re-designed again near the end of 1950. Ribbon cover hole enlarged, chrome lever inserts now have "wings", Plastic keys begin, except on special-order and some foreign keyboards. 'C' Model "Arrow" Discontinued, "Companion" re-designed and re-launched as 'F' Model. 17 2137681 1951 17 2353369 1952 'F' Model "Companion" halted. 17 2563970 1953 17 2787735 1954 17 2977900 1955 17 3177500 1956 'B' Model (Aristocrat) redesigned and re-launched. 'RS' Model "Companion" re-designed and re-launched. 17 3449287 1957 17 3770781 1958 "Quiet De Luxe" 'A' Model becomes "Futura 800" '2A' Model, "Arrow" 'C' Model becomes "Futura 400" '2C' Model, although all are produced concurrently during 1958. 'B' Model "Aristocrat" halted, 'RS' Model "Companion" halted. 17 4053056 1959 "Quiet De Luxe" Discontinued. 17 4200000 1960 Approximation. 60 4500000 1961 Approximation. 60 4800000 1962 Approximation. 60 5200000 1963 Approximation. "Futura 800" '2A' model becomes "Safari" 'SA' Model at #5,584,967. "Caravan" 'CR' Model introduced. 60 5584967 1964 6 5958589 1965 "Aristocrat" re-launched with 'A1(?)' Prefix. "Custom" 'CU' Model began. "Caravan" 'CR' Model discontinued(?). 6 6474796 1966 6 7260000 1967 Approximation. 60 7700000 1968 Approximation. "Safari" 'SA' Model becomes "Sabre" 'SB' model (made in Portugal). "Aristocrat" discontinued. U.S. portables production stops(?). 60 8500000 1969 Approximation. "SB" model discontinued in favor of imported and rebadged Silver Seiko and Adler portables around 9,300,000. 60 Royal Portable, Models: E (Signet) - ES (Signet Junior) - J, JC, BJ (Junior) - CD (Companion) - U (Mercury) - D, UR, UB (Varsity) 1000 1932 17 21500 1933 17 24369 1934 17 33652 1935 17 45013 1936 17 52139 1937 17 66284 1938 17 85734 1939 17 112573 1940 17 162970 1941 17 232332 1942 17 Royalite, Dart and Royaluxe 400, 425 and 450, Parade 3000001 1955 24 3160000 1956 24 3385300 1957 24 3730500 1958 24 3952180 1959 24 4280765 1960 24 4544659 1961 6,24 4927715 1962 6 5292116 1963 6 5743811 1964 6 6098916 1965 6 6580453 1966 Production ends around serial #7,000,000 6 Royaluxe 300 and 325 104311 1959 6 111500 1960 Production ends around serial #128,000 24
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