Underwood’s Short-Lived Hideaway Typewriter

 

 

 

Underwood wasn’t known for making the best portable typewriters. (That distinction would have been shared by Olympia, Olivetti, Hermes, Smith-Corona, & Remington.)

But the fun is often in the footnotes, and this certainly counts as one. Underwood produced the Hideaway typewriter, designed to fold down and hide inside a dedicated desk, in the mid-to-late 1950s. It’s certainly nice looking, but a niche item if there ever was one and it didn’t succeed. Neither did the money-losing Underwood company, which was acquired by Olivetti in 1959.

 

 

(fImages rom James Grooms on the Antique Typewriter Collectors Facebook page.)