Original U.S. WWII Remington Rand Streamliner Typewriter - B109697
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Original Item. Only One Available. Remington Rand was one of the largest and most successful manufacturers of typewriters when they introduced their Model 5 Typewriter in the mid 1930’s. The Model 5 was a portable typewriter with a beautiful art deco inspired design, and was reasonably inexpensive for the time – retailing for $54.95. In spite of the raging Great Depression, the Model 5 was a success, selling especially well through partnerships with various department stores. The company’s network of dealers were not particularly happy about Remington’s partnership with these retailers.
The company introduced the Streamliner Typewriter3 in February of 1941 for a price of just $49.50, and it was only available through their network of dealers. At first, production of the Streamliner was modest, running about 1,500 units manufactured per month. Early models featured the Streamliner logo with stylized ‘gust of wind’ lines. By summer of that year, the logo design was cleaned up to just feature the Streamliner name. Sales began to increase, so production increased as well, averaging 2,300-2,500 per month.
By December of 1941 the U.S. had entered World War II. Remington Rand, like so many other U.S. companies, began to shift their production to support the war effort. Famously, the company produced more M1911 pistols than any manufacturer during the war. The company shut down most typewriter manufacturing for civilian use, except for a limited run of old Model 5’s and some of their desktop typewriter models. The Streamliner was shelved, with the last units coming out of the factory in the middle of April, 1942. In the 1950’s Remington Rand brought the Streamliner name back, attached to a lightweight, plastic, typewriter, but the era of their art deco designed typewriters ended with the original Streamliner.
This is a very scarce WWII Streamliner typewriter manufactured before the unit was shelved so that the company could begin their war production. The serial number is B109697, denoting a manufacture date of 1941. The typewriter is in good order without any serious damage we can note.
Ready for further research and display.
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