FREE Monotype Keyboard & Caster, Vermont, USA

[Dave Hughes]

This has appeared on the Briar Press website:

This Monotype was used to set type at the Hardwick Gazette in Hardwick, VT. It hasn't been used since the 1980s, but it's been sitting in a dry heated space.

The Hardwick Gazette is now an online paper (sigh) and the building is being used for a community enterprise.

Both the keyboard and the caster are free to anyone one who can use them for their intended purpose (including as parts machines). They are three steps up from street level on the main floor of the Gazette.

Contact details are here: Monotype, Hardwick VT

[Keri Szafir]

Bloody hell, makes me wish I was in the States!

[Keri Szafir]

A bit of info on this machine, from what I managed to see on this teeny tiny pic:
-the machine is almost certainly Lanston Monotype (American made)
-it's a type & rule caster with a speed control attachment
-might have some additional attachments, or equipment typical for US machines (since I live in Europe, all the machines I know are British and I don't know the Lanston stuff very well)
-the motor is unknown, or separate / not there at all (some machines probably were used with central shaft drive); the objects lying on the floor right under the gearbox may be the tensioning rails for mounting the motor
-heating is probably electric, control box taken off but hanging on the wires
-the machine is missing a galley, otherwise it seems to be complete but would need closer inspection... and lots of recombobulation