Triumph Standard 12the Nuremberg standard

Triumph-Werke of Nuremberg traces back to Siegfried Bettmann, the Nuremberg-born industrialist who also founded the Triumph bicycle and motorcycle marque in Coventry. The Standard 12 is one of its interwar office machines: a heavy, planted desk typewriter of the kind that filled German offices in the 1930s. Triumph's lasting reputation, though, came after the war with the stylish remodelled Norm and Perfekt portables, which kept the company at the top of German typewriter design. In 1957 Max Grundig bought into Triumph and used it to take a cross-shareholding in Adler; the new family of portables was named Gabriele after Grundig's granddaughter, and the two firms eventually merged into Triumph-Adler. A solid, historic desk machine to look at and type the occasional page on.