![]() ![]() ![]() I guess there was resistance in my head to thinking of a machine labelled just an Imperial Good Companion as being anything other than the beautiful original model, the 1930s IGC. I did service one of these "lookalikes" once, but at that time didn't take the opportunity to look more closely at the differences between it and a Model T, or to put the two alongside one another. It is the eighth of those 25 typewriters that I have had the chance to take a close look at. (Any Good Companion, as opposed to a Good Companion Model T, or Models 3-7, has no number in front of the letter or letters.)Īn Imperial Good Companion "Model T lookalike", the one that isn't a Model T but is just a plain Good Companion, came into my possession with the "booty" of 25 typewriters I received the weekend before last (along with two Good Companion Model 7s). That's fair enough - it might have got a bit confusing otherwise a Model T produced in 1941 would have been a "TT", for example, and one in 1956 a "TJT". Presumably the Age Guide's justification was the use of the figure 2 as a code in front of the letter, or letters, in the Model T's serial numbers. The first Imperial Good Companion to have a model number on it was the No 3, the first segment-shifted IGC. The Typewriter Age Guide, however, insists on referring to the No 1 and to the No 2 model. A 1952 Imperial Good Companion There is, of course, no such thing as an Imperial Good Companion labelled a Model 2. ![]()
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