Career Manufacturer
Biography Hidalgo Moya set up the company in 1908 in Garton Street, Leicester. It was the leading British typewriter manufacturer. In 1964 the company was taken over by Litton Industries [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 27/04/2007]
Biography References http://www.typewritermuseum.org/collection/index.php3?machine=imperiala&cat=kd / http://www.portabletypewriters.com/portable_typewriters_imperial.htm
County Leicestershire
Relationship Maker
Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography
Collected around 1977
Date made around c 1945
Dates active 1908-1964
Donated around 1997
English collections Typewriter used by Beatrice Blackwood [Imperial the Good Companion Model T.', No. 2E 120]
Institution Yes
Oxford based No
English collection size 1
Connections Beatrice Blackwood