Fountain Pens & Typewriters

 I was never able to find a manufacturing date for this typewriter.  My guess is that is a mid 1970s machine since the fellow who gave it ...

I have been searching for information on the Royal Custom-III I bought at a rummage sale yesterday.  I found 2 references to the Custom-III ...

    This is a pica machine and the one fault I found is shown here.  The H type bar does not fully retract.  It did not cause a proble...