Imperial & Royal
Imperial Typewriter Company Ltd. was formed in 1908 in Leicester, and became a very successful producer of typewriters.
In 1966 it was acquired by
Litton Industries and merged with its Royal Typewriter division.
The company sold mechanical calculators under the Imperial name, and electronic calculators were sold under both the Imperial and Royal names in the early to mid 1970s. The Imperial electronic models are largely identical to the Royal equivalent (and also the Triumph/Adler equivalent, since these were also part of Litton Industries).
The Leicester factory was closed in 1974 after a bitter labour dispute. The sales office continued, being renamed Imperial Business Equipment in 1975, until about 1989.
Known Imperial calculators:
Mechanical calculators:
Desk Electronic calculators:
- Imperial
- Imperial 860
- Royal IC-130
Hand-held calculators (are similar to the corresponding Royal and Triumph-Adler models):
Many Imperial hand-held calculators are of a similar boxy design which comes in three sizes, tiny, normal, and large, as shown above:
- Imperial 12HT
- Imperial 80CS
- Imperial 80K
- Imperial 81CS
- Imperial 81M
- Imperial 81SR
- Imperial 90K
- Imperial 91K
- Imperial 90S
- Imperial 91S
- Imperial 92M
- Imperial 94F
- Imperial 99T
- Imperial 1010
- Imperial 1020
- Imperial 1030
- Imperial Companion
- Imperial Special
Hand-held electronic labelled "Royal" on the front, "Made in ... for Imperial Typewriter Company Limited" on the back (all similar to the corresponding Royal models) -
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