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Posted by Bruce Anderton
- June 08, 2022, 09:03:27 PMMany moons ago when I was visiting L&M at Altrincham there was a yellow Model 78, which I was told had come from Express Newspapers in Manchester.
There is a film available on a BFI DVD which relates the move of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo into their new building, and in the composing room some of the Linotypes were painted in a very light grey (to stop people bumping into them, no doubt!).
There is a film available on a BFI DVD which relates the move of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo into their new building, and in the composing room some of the Linotypes were painted in a very light grey (to stop people bumping into them, no doubt!).
Posted by Dave Hughes
- April 24, 2014, 11:03:07 AMQuite a disturbing sight George!
It just looks like someone has gone to town with an inappropriately coloured aerosol spray!
Shame, it looks like a nice machine
It just looks like someone has gone to town with an inappropriately coloured aerosol spray!
Shame, it looks like a nice machine
Posted by Mechanic
- April 23, 2014, 06:04:36 AMWhen I saw this photo I thought an "Irish intertype. It turns out it is in Potosi, Bolivia.
http://www.madphin.com/trips/trip5/show.php?where=potosi
http://www.madphin.com/trips/trip5/show.php?where=potosi
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