1971 was a year of change. It brought out boxier typewriter designs like the dense plastic body shells of this French manufactured Hermes 3000 and a very similar, but rarer Sears Newport, which was manufactured by Messa in Portugal.
Which one would you have chosen?
I’ve used both a H3k and a Messa, and I would choose the H3k any day.
That poor Newport must have carriage return lever envy being around the Hermes’ glorified 9 iron.