Fully Restored Remington Sperry Rand Performer Portable Typewriter | Compact Design & Crisp 12 CPI Elite Typeface

📖 Product Overview: A Vintage Mid-Century Classic

Discover the sleek design and reliable performance of the Remington Sperry Rand Performer portable typewriter. Manufactured during a celebrated era of Remington typewriter production, the Performer model is favored by authors, students, and typing enthusiasts for its lightweight portability, crisp key feel, and dependable mechanical engineering.

This specific unit is in great vintage condition. It has undergone a complete, painstaking mechanical overhaul across 8 to 10 hours at our specialized UK workshop. Fully dismantled, chemically flushed, segment-aligned, and precision-calibrated, this machine operates smoothly and reliably—delivering crisp, dark text and fluid carriage action across every line.

📊 Technical Specifications & Restoration Data

• Brand & Model: Remington Sperry Rand Performer.

• Origin: Manufactured under the historic Sperry Rand Remington emblem.

• Keyboard Layout: Standard QWERTY Layout.

• Mechanical Condition: 100% Fully Functional & Serviced. Thoroughly inspected, cleaned, degreased, and calibrated at our UK workshop to guarantee fluid, responsive key action and perfect carriage advancement.

• Platen Roller: Original factory rubber platen preserved in clean, reliable operational condition—feeding paper smoothly and gripping cleanly.

• Ribbon System: Pre-installed with a fresh 10-meter two-colour (Black/Red) fabric typewriter ribbon wound on authentic spools.

✍️ Typeface & Font Details

• Typeface Style: Crisp, clean, and elegant Elite Typeface.

• Font Pitch: 12 Characters Per Inch (12 CPI / Elite Scale)—printing sharp, clear, and space-efficient text across every page. Ideal for creative writing, manuscripts, detailed letters, and personal journaling.

🎨 Cosmetic Condition & Included Accessories

• Cosmetic Presentation: Great vintage condition overall. The compact, lightweight frame presents well, displaying minor, honest signs of historic use and age marks consistent with gentle handling over the decades. Main marks on left side of the ribbons lid. 

• Keytop Condition: Every individual keycap has been hand-cleaned, sanitized, and polished.

• Original Carrying Case: Includes its authentic original carrying case offering robust, lightweight protection for storage and travel.

📋 Quick Specifications Overview

🛡️ Peace of Mind & Workshop Mechanical Guarantee

✅ 1-Year Mechanical Guarantee | ✅ 14-Day Returns | ✅ Lifetime Aftercare | ✅ Featured on BBC's The Repair Shop

Every typewriter leaving our workshop represents the highest standard of vintage mechanical conservation. To ensure complete confidence in your investment, your typewriter is backed by our Comprehensive 1-Year Mechanical Guarantee, covering all internal mechanisms, segment linkages, and moving parts. Each machine is logged in our digital workshop registry under its unique serial number for full traceability and long-term support. Please read our dedicated workshop guarantee page on our website for complete details and peace of mind.

🌍 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 (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Europe & Rest of World): We dispatch all website orders in less than 24 hours via fully tracked premium air courier directly to your door in 3 to 7 working days (with prompt EU dispatch and express delivery options available at checkout).

• Proprietary Global Packaging Protocol: To guarantee your machine survives international air transit, we mechanically lock the carriage, wrap the frame in multi-layered shock-absorbing cushioning, and suspend the typewriter within a heavy-duty, double-walled outer shipping carton.

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

• Unbox & Start Writing: Your Remington Sperry Rand Performer arrives pre-installed with its fresh ink ribbon, original case, and our primary step-by-step startup instructions. 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 typewriter model.

• Lifetime Technical Partnership: 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 BBC's The Repair Shop and major Netflix productions.

🎬 We prepared a video on how to use this Typewriter on YouTube.

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