Empire / Aristocrat model overview

I did an overview of the Empire and Aristocrat models know to me at http://www.typewriters.ch/blog/2014/07/empire-portable-typewriter/ .

Please refer to this page in the future. It is a blog-based part of my website, but I gradually want to shift all my contents there as it is convenient to write and update articles, and also graphically adapted for use on portable devices etc.

Entries will be almost exclusively in German, but google translate is getting better and better. So this could work.

Empire portable typewriter

I cleaned this nice little Empire, Made in England. Direct import by Royal Mail, royal price by the way. Cleaned it, repaired the main spring (needed to dismount the carriage to do that). So much fun! Vivat!

Do you know the brand name of this type?

UPDATE 9 July 2014: thanks to reader and fellow collector J.H. we now know the name of the type used on this Empire portable: it is GORDON WEBB & Co., Ltd.. See below an add drawn from Typewriter Topics, Oct. 1920:

detail of the above add, with the characteristic (Poseidon's?) trident

  

There once was an Empire