This is a black ribbon for your lovely manual Remington Typewriter. The Remington Typewriter was an industry leader, a great typer!!
This is a brand new high quality black typewriter ribbon that will fit Remington typewriters listed below. It comes with 2 plastic spools. The ribbon is 1/2 inch wide. The ribbon is 12 yds long. Please make sure your model is listed below to avoid disappointment. Model not listed???, email us and we will try to accommodate.
PLEASE NOTE: THESE SPOOLS ARE 2 INCHES WIDE
Fits the following models:
Ribbon material: nylon
Ribbon color: black
Spool diameter: 2 inches (50mm)
Ribbon width: 1/2 inches (12.7mm)
Centre hole: 4mm
Some interesting information:
Did you know that Remington can lay claim to being the company that created the very first typewriter, back in the 1870s? One of the earliest users of the typewriters produced by the company was none other than Mark Twain. History disputes whether he was actually the first writer to produce a typewritten manuscript to send to his publisher, but he was certainly one of the first. The price of those early Remington typewriters would have cost between $75 and $150 at the time. This was a considerable sum in those days!
In total more than two dozen different main versions of the Remington typewriter were produced over the years. The company first started life as E Remington and Sons, taking the name of the man who founded the company way back in 1816. It would be nearly sixty years before they manufactured the first Remington typewriter however. In the meantime they were responsible for designing and making Remington rifle barrels.
Remington is notable as a brand of typewriter for the simple fact that their first two typewriters had features that are still in use today on every single computer keyboard in the world. The very first typewriter they created was known as the Sholes and Glidden typewriter. It was Sholes who was credited with inventing the typewriter as we know it today, and he also came up with the QWERTY layout that we are all familiar with. The first Remington typewriter featured this layout.