Click on the still to the right and you will be taken to the Media Archive for Central England site and an ATV report from 1975 about redundancies and attempts to keep the factory open.
That still shows the leader of the action group formed to try to save the factory. Unexpectedly, he turns out to be a young Roger Blackmore, who was to become Liberal Democrat leader of the city council from 2003 to 2004 and again from 2005 to 2007.
Roger was also a parliamentary candidate several times and in 1983 fought Jeremy Thorpe's old seat of North Devon for the Liberal Party.
As to Imperial, the whole typewriter industry was soon to be swept away by technological advance.
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My home was in Leicester until I moved to Ireland in the mid 1960s. I remember Roger Blackmore from the days of my Liberal activism in Leicester. I remember Roger as the most irrepressible activist of all. It was a great pleasure to meet him again when I visited Leicester during his tenure of the elevated position of lord mayor, a great reward for his civic activism.
The fate of Imperial Typewriters is neatly stated in the final line of the blogger.
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