Any Tradio fans here? I like how the Tradio pencil mechanism is interchangeable with the pens. (I do like the Kerry more, both in feel and looks, but the original side-click mechanism is close to my heart.)
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I have a few of these as well. I liked the original intent to be a modular system. The windowed cap was meant to help you see what kind of pen tip was inside. Always found it strange that the pencil model was made in France for some reason.
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I believe all of the Tradios were made in France.
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I wish I knew exactly where they were made. All of the pencils, and pens with the same kind of cap as the pencils, have “JAPAN” molded on them.
I have one box of fountain pens where the box sticker shows “MADE IN TAIWAN”. A box of the pencils has “Japan Assembled by Euro Pentel”.
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I sold my Tradio TRP55 MP quite a long time ago, but my spreadsheet says Country of Manufacture = Japan, so it must have had “Japan” printed or moulded somewhere implying Japanese origin.
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I wonder what was behind the naming intention of “Tradio.”
Semi-unrelated, TOMBOW had a mechanical pencil & ballpoint duo line called ‘TRAD’ 1000… which I believe was simply a shortening of “TRADITIONAL.”
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Has anyone heard of model number TRP92 Tradio?
My Brown Tradio MP has a barcode sticker with the model number TRP92E. The barcode 3474371920088 is registered to EuroPentel.
I have it listed in the Pentel Pencils Book as TRP55-70 since that is how it is listed in the 2006 International catalog. It is listed there (pdf page 92) as being manufactured by EuroPentel (France).
The TRJ Fountain Pens are also listed as EuroPentel mfg. on page 94.
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It seems that all of the mechanisms for the Tradio pencils are marked TRP55. The sticker on my plain box for the gold/bronze Tradio pencil shows TRP55M-80. The “fancy” box for the silver Tradio is marked TRP55-74. The stickers on the boxes for my others are similar to each other, but different from the TRP55 and have the following codes:
TRP91B (Carmine)
TRP91G (Lemon)
TRP91K (Apple)
TRP92E (Earth)
TRP92W (Sand)
I have a single TRP55E with a Japanese sticker on it. The cap has no printing on it. A different brown color from the TRP92E.
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