Private company

Silver Seiko

Japanese typewriter and knitting machine manufacturing company

Silver Seiko Ltd., trading internationally as Silver Reed, was a Japanese company founded in 1952, widely known for its knitting machines and typewriters. The company, last formally headquartered in Shinjuku, Tokyo until its 2011 demise, is unrelated to the Seiko Group (timepiece technology).2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Dec 1, 1939Founded1
  • HeadquartersTokyo1
Silver-Reed SR 200 in red-9532
Photo: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Silver Seiko Ltd., trading internationally as Silver Reed, was a Japanese company founded in 1952, widely known for its knitting machines and typewriters. The company, last formally headquartered in Shinjuku, Tokyo until its 2011 demise, is unrelated to the Seiko Group (timepiece technology).2

Timeline

  1. Dec 1, 1939Founded Founded1

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3