{"id":76793,"date":"2020-01-31T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T12:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-museonicolis.leaduser.it\/en\/1917-fox-portable\/"},"modified":"2021-12-12T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T14:30:58","slug":"1917-fox-portable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/1917-fox-portable\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Portable, 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox Typewriter Company, Fox Portable, 1917, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fox Portable<\/strong>, also known as \u201cBaby Fox<\/em>\u201d,\u00a0 is a typewriter made by the US Fox Typewriter Company since 1917.<\/p>\n

It’s a portable typewriter with collapsible carriage, <\/strong>making it flatter and easier to transport.<\/p>\n

The machine used 24cm-wide paper sheets and was sold at the price of 65 dollars.<\/p>\n

The Fox Typewriter Company<\/strong> was founded in 1902 by William R. Fox in Grand Rapids, Michigan.<\/p>\n

When WWI started, the lack of materials stopped the production of many typewriter companies.<\/p>\n

In 1917, Fox created its first portable typewriters, small and with a collapsible carriage, a very similar mechanism to the Corona Portable N. 3, made by the Corona Typewriter Company<\/strong>.
\nFox Typewriter Company was in fact sued by Corona for patent infringement and was force to withdrew the Fox Portable from the market.<\/p>\n

After this episode, the company made a not-foldable portable typewriter, but in 1921 it closed because of finantial problems due probably to the trial.<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n \r\n