Imperial Good Companion Model 3 (1955)

Imperial Good Companion  Model 3 
 
First year of production:  1952
 
Company:  Imperial Typewriter Co., Leicester, England
 
Serial No. K882
 
The Imperial Typewriter Company scored two advertising coups with their portable. The first involved the name.
 
Popular British author and playwright, J.B. Priestley, gave the Imperial Company permission to name their first portable after his bestseller, The Good Companions.
 
The second advertising coup came when a machine was sold to Buckingham Palace. Imperial gained the right to label their brand, ‘By Royal Appointment.’
 
As the University of Leicester History Department states, “the company … thus gained a valuable PR coup as Britain’s most prestigious and most visible typewriter manufacturer.”
 
The insignia is usually in vivid full color: red, white, and blue, with gold. Though some machines have a monochrome gold version.
 
Famous Writers Who Used The Good Companion
 
Rudyard Kipling
Dylan Thomas
Beryl Bainbridge
Enid Blyton