Hispano-Olivetti//THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION

Let the sales begin

by Richard Polt | Sep 16, 2023 | Hispano-Olivetti, Olivetti

I intend to make some serious progress on slimming down my typewriter collection this fall. My first listing on eBay is a Pluma 22. — A what? — That’s the Spanish counterpart to the Lettera 22, minus tabulator. And this one is pink.You can find the listing...

Mateo Marín Burgos, La reparación de máquinas de escribir (Typewriter Repair), 1936

by Richard Polt | Oct 29, 2020 | Book review, Hispano-Olivetti, Olivetti, repair

I’ve found the perfect go-with for my Hispano-Olivetti M40.The second edition of La reparación de máquinas de escribir, by Mateo Marín Burgos, was published in Madrid in 1936, just at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. The subtitle promises that...