Fully Restored Olympia SM4 Wide-Carriage Typewriter (13") | Classic Matte Green with Brand-New Platen, Original Dust Cover, Brush & Manual

📖 Product Overview: The Pinnacle of Mid-Century Typing Perfection

Presenting the legendary Olympia SM4 Wide-Carriage (13-Inch)—an absolute masterpiece of West German engineering, widely regarded by novelists, academics, and collectors as one of the finest manual portables ever built. This extended-carriage model allows you to type wide ledger sheets, landscape documents, tables, and manuscript pages with effortless precision.

This specific unit features a highly sought-after, uncommon textured matte green frame beautifully contrasted by original dark green keytops. Meticulously overhauled  at our specialized UK workshop by BBC's The Repair Shop featured experts Walid Saad & Joujou, this iconic typewriter has been upgraded with a brand-new recovered platen to deliver a smooth, heavy-duty typing experience.

📊 Technical Specifications & Restoration Data

• Brand & Model: Olympia SM4 (De Luxe Wide Carriage)

• Origin: Made in Western Germany (celebrated for peerless mechanical alignment).

• Carriage Size: Extended 13-Inch Wide Carriage—ideal for landscape orientation, wide paper, ledger sheets, and extended manuscript drafting.

• Keyboard Layout: Standard QWERTY Layout with dark green keytops.

• Colour Scheme:  factory textured green body with striking original dark green keys.

• Mechanical Condition: 100% Fully Functional. Completely serviced, aligned, and stress-tested for fluid performance.

Our Rigorous Workshop Restoration Upgrades:

• Brand-New Fitted Platen Rubber (£180 Value as its longer): The original rubber roller was aged and hardened. We have fully stripped and upgraded it with a brand-new recovered rubber platen layer, delivering modern reliability, excellent paper feed tracking, and a crisp, cushioned impact.

• Precision Mechanism Tune-Up: Deep-flushed, chemically cleaned, and stabilized with brand-new chassis washers applied throughout the frame to enhance structural longevity and dampen vibration.

• Fresh Two-Tone Ribbon Installed: Pre-installed with a brand-new, premium 10-meter GR1 (Group 1) black and red ink ribbon. (Workshop note: Because the ribbon is deeply inked from the factory, the red selector may look slightly smudged initially but sharpens into clean lines with regular use).

🎨 Cosmetic Condition & Complete Original Accessories Suite

• Cosmetic Presentation: The original metal frame remains in excellent, like NEW vintage condition, preserving its deep structural appeal.  

• Keys: Pristine, dark green keytops that feel exceptionally tactile under the fingers, showing beautiful clarity against the green finish.

• Complete Original Accessories Package:

  • Original Carrying Case: Includes its original wooden carrying case, fully cleaned for safe transport. Minor age marks on its outside. 

  • Original Vinyl Dust Cover: Rare, original Olympia-branded flexible dust cover.

  • Original Cleaning Brush: Includes the factory-supplied cleaning brush.

  • Original User Manual: Complete original instruction booklet included.

✍️ Typeface & Font Details

• Typeface Style: Clean and distinctive Elite Typeface, carrying immense classic character.

• Font Pitch: 11 Characters Per Inch (11 CPI), lending an elegant, tight, and highly legible aesthetic to every word—superb for prose, scripts, and personal journaling.

📋 Quick Specifications Overview

🎬 Video Tutorial & Demonstration

We have prepared a dedicated video on how to operate, adjust the margins, and maintain this specific typewriter on YouTube. (Link provided below listing).

🌍 Global Shipping, Timelines & Tariff Information

🇺🇸 United States & 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Shipping (100% Free & All-Inclusive): Standard local & international shipping to the US and UK is completely free and included in the listed price. Furthermore, all US import tariffs and customs duties are fully prepaid by our workshop. There are absolutely zero hidden checkout fees, surprise border holds, or cash-on-delivery demands at your door.

🌐 International Shipping (Europe, Australia, Canada & Rest of World): We dispatch all website orders in less than 24 hours. We offer flexible, fully tracked premium shipping options calculated at checkout:

• Standard International Delivery: Safely delivered via premium air courier directly to your doorstep in 3 to 7 working days (with prompt EU dispatch and highly competitive rates to Australia and remote destinations).

• Express International Delivery Upgrade: Arrives at your door in just 1 to 3 working days for a small additional fee.

Proprietary Global Packaging Protocol: To ensure a heavy wide-carriage mid-century machine survives international air transit flawlessly, we lock the carriage rails down, wrap the entire chassis in multi-layered shock-absorbing protection, and suspend it inside a heavy-duty, double-walled container.

🤝 The "Ready-to-Write" Package & Lifetime Support

• Unbox & Start Writing: Your Olympia SM4 arrives pre-installed with your fresh ribbon and our primary step-by-step startup instructions designed by our workshop team. Simply unbox, release the carriage lock, and begin typing immediately.

• Video Learning Academy: Your package includes a direct link to our dedicated YouTube video tutorial, teaching you exactly how to type on, care for, adjust the margins, and change ink ribbons on your specific Olympia typewriter.

• Lifetime Technical Partnership: Your relationship with our workshop does not end at delivery. Every typewriter we sell comes with lifetime technical support. You receive direct email and video-call troubleshooting access to Walid and Joujou, the celebrated restoration experts from the BBC's The Repair Shop and major Netflix productions.

📖 Have questions about Olympia typewriters or wide-carriage models? Read our master guide: Typewriter FAQ: The Ultimate 100 Questions Answered