Imperial 200 (1969-73)

Imperial 200 (1969-73)
 
First year of production:  1969
 
Company:  Imperial Typewriter Co., Leicester, England
 
In 1969, after industrial strife at its remaining Royal plants in the US, Litton transferred the Imperial and Royal typewriter brand names off to Japan.
 
For five years, until 1974, Imperial and Royal typewriters were rebranded Silver-Seikos (Silver-Reeds) and made in Kashiwazaki, Niigata (where portable typewriter production had started in 1966). 
 
Then Litton switched Japanese camps to Nakajima ALL in Sakaki, Nagano, where portable typewriters had started coming off the production lines in 1965 and reached a peak of 150,000 a month in 1975.