Book review: The Complete Manufacturing Process of a Vintage Typewriter

The Complete Manufacturing Process of a Vintage Typewriter: Archival Engineering Reconstruction—1930–1938 is a 73-page book published in 2025 by Type Space in Portland, Oregon. Type Space is a beautiful shop and cultural center run by Antony Valoppi with the assistance of Mark Naylor. I recommend the engaging interview with Antony and Mark recently published by Austin Typewriter, Ink.The concept of the book is exciting: let's look behind the walls of a typewriter factory in the 1930s, when most of the kinks of early typewriter experiments had been worked out and the production system was perfected. I personally love 1930s typewriters for their quality and appearance, so I was curious to know more.The bibliography lists a dozen rare internal publications by Royal, Smith-Corona, and Underwood. (Remington is conspicuously absent, and factories outside the United States are not discussed.) These sound like invaluable sources for esoteric information, such as Royal's Escapement and Spacing…