Imperial Typewriter Company was a former British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 manufacturer of typewriter

Typewriter

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical device with keys that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. Typically one character is printed per keypress, and the machine prints the characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the pieces...

s based in Leicester

Leicester

Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

.

The company was founded by Hidalgo Moya

Hidalgo Moya

John Hidalgo Moya , sometimes known as Jacko Moya, was a famous American-born architect who worked largely in England. Moya was a native of California where he was born to an English mother and Mexican father but lived in England since he was an infant. He formed the architectural practice Powell &...

, an American-Spanish engineer who lived in England. After first building the Moya typewriter, he set up the Imperial Typewriter Company in Leicester in the UK, they ceased manufacturing typewriters when personal computers became popular and people stopped buying typewriters. The company was acquired by Litton Industries

Litton Industries

Named after inventor Charles Litton, Sr., Litton Industries was a large defense contractor in the United States, bought by the Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2001.-History:...

in 1966 and the manufacture of typewriters ceased at Leicester in 1974.

Models

• Imperial A
• Imperial B
• Imperial C
• Imperial D
• Imperial model 60
• Imperial War Finish model
• The Good Companion model 1
• The Good Companion model 2
• The Good Companion model 3
• The Good Companion model 4
• The Good Companion model 5
• Imperial Safari model
• Imperial Messenger Portable Typewriter

External links

• http://web.archive.org/web/20091028060244/http://www.geocities.com/wbd641/EuropeImperial.html