Underwood 4-Bank Standard Portable

The Underwood 4-Bank Standard Portable was the first portable typewriter produced by Underwood.

Underwood Standard 4-Bank Portable Inventor:Alfred Gustav Franz Kurowski A first-year Underwood 4-Bank. General Information Company: Underwood Type: Manual Portable Produced: 1925-1938 Fate: Succeeded by the Champion, Universal, and later designs. Rebrands: None Notes: Featured in Violet Evergarden

History

As a result of the 1920 Remington Portable No. 1 -- the first portable typewriter with 4 rows of keys-- making the existing Underwood 3-Bank Standard Portable somewhat obsolete, Underwood decided to develop a portable typewriter with 4 rows of keys. Underwood designer Kurowski was told to develop a portable typewriter similar to the 3-Bank portable design.

Notes and Misc./Reference List

https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2011/11/underwood-portable-typewriters-1919.html