Oliver Typewriter Company
The Oliver Typewriter was one of the first “visible print” typewriters, meaning text was visible to the typist as it was entered. Oliver produced more than one million machines between 1895 and 1928 and licensed its designs to several international firms. Competitive pressure and financial troubles resulted in the company’s liquidation in 1928.
About Oliver Typewriter Company in brief
The Oliver Typewriter was one of the first “visible print” typewriters, meaning text was visible to the typist as it was entered. Oliver produced more than one million machines between 1895 and 1928 and licensed its designs to several international firms. Competitive pressure and financial troubles resulted in the company’s liquidation in 1928. The company’s assets were purchased by investors who formed The British Oliver TypEWriter Company, which manufactured and licensed the machines until its own closure in the late 1950s. The last Oliver typewriter was produced in 1959. Production of Oliver’s original, three-rowed keyboard design was discontinued in 1931 when the company began to produce a rebranded model of the “Fortuna” typewriter. In 1935, the company had to retool its machines and return to the original Oliver design when the British government placed large orders for the Oliver-Norden standard typewriter at the outbreak of World War II.
In 1958, Oliver purchased the Barlock Company, previously the Oliver Barlock Typewriters Company, and began to license the Oliver design to several European companies, including Siemens, Siemens and Halda-Nordsaer Typewritten. The Oliver Barock Typewrites were discontinued in favor of portable models; the company eventually sold the rights to the Siemens design to Nottingham Typewrite Company, a company previously known as the Nottingham Barlock typewriter Company. Oliver was awarded his first typewriter patent, US Patent No. 450,107, on April 7, 1891. He died suddenly of heart disease on February 9, 1909, aged 56.
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