Only the Remington Standard and Smith Premier Standard (formerly the Monarch) remained. As the 1920s ended, many typewriter companies disappeared, especially abroad, but competition remained strong in the United States.īy 1924, production of the Yost No. The Monarch standard was rebranded as Smith Premier. It had no connection with the Union or Remington. In 1916, Pittsburgh Typewriter Company was revived as Reliance controlled by Montgomery Ward. By 1915, all up-strike machines disappeared. Production of the Monarch was transferred to Remington’s plant. In 1914-1915, the Monarch factory shut down and was sold. In 1913, the Union Typewriter Trust was reorganized as the Remington Typewriter Company. New visible machines were released by Remington, Smith Premier, and Yost. In 1908-1909, Union Typewriter acquired the Pittsburgh Writing Machine Company and Wahl Adding Machine Company.
The Monarch appeared in late 1904.Īround 1906, the American Writing Machine Company ended production of the Caligraph and focused on rebuilding typewriters. The Union Typewriter Trust was developing the Monarch, a visible machine to be made by a newly created Monarch Typewriter Company. Unable to reach an agreement, they left the trust and founded L. In 1903, the four Smith brothers, formerly in charge of Smith Premier, requested permission to produce a visible typewriter. In 1900, consultants and engineers for Union began to file patents for new “visible” typewriters in response to Wagner Typewriter Company’s Underwood model and typewriters developed by Oliver and Pittsburgh. Remington essentially controlled the trust. The American Writing Machine Company (Caligraph), Densmore and Brooks, Smith Premier Typewriting Company, and the Yost Writing Machine Company joined Remington to form the Union Writing Machine Company. As more and more manufacturers began making typewriters, Remington proposed a merger with several other large typewrite manufacturers in 1893.
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