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Posted by Dave Hughes
- August 17, 2024, 08:14:06 AMIn 2024 this very clean looking Linotype Quadriga was offered for sale on a machinery auction site (price on application!)
Posted by Dave Hughes
- July 14, 2024, 09:39:16 AMWhile looking for images to use on this page I came across an old Kickstarter project from 2019. It was an appeal to save a Linotype Gamma in Vienna.
Having not heard of this model before, I first turned to Bruce Anderton's excellent article on Metal Type: German new-line Linotypes but there was no mention of the Gamma.
Here are some photos of the machine from that Kickstarter page:
The top picture shows Willy Kolleger, the original owner of the Linotype Gamma, the second shows Christian the Linotype operator. The bottom gives the clearest picture of the machine.
Having not heard of this model before, I first turned to Bruce Anderton's excellent article on Metal Type: German new-line Linotypes but there was no mention of the Gamma.
Here are some photos of the machine from that Kickstarter page:
The top picture shows Willy Kolleger, the original owner of the Linotype Gamma, the second shows Christian the Linotype operator. The bottom gives the clearest picture of the machine.
Posted by Dave Hughes
- September 23, 2023, 07:58:53 AMThis picture was posted on Facebook recently. "Taken in a Berlin museum."
I think it might be a Continenta
I think it might be a Continenta
Posted by Dave Hughes
- May 06, 2023, 08:48:37 AMI have been contacted by Büsy Lingg, from Switzerland, who is pictured here operating a Linotype Europa:
He says:
He says:
QuoteI used to work in 1977 at this Type of EUROPA for the Lucerne Newspaper in Switzerland... but without TTS Equipment. I realy liked the "Europa". It was like driving a Mercedes after all the years on Volkswagen
Posted by Dave Hughes
- May 05, 2023, 09:37:49 AMBruce Anderton's article, with pictures and descriptions of all the "new Line" linecasters, can be found on the main Metal Type site here:
German new-line Linotypes
German new-line Linotypes
Posted by Dave Hughes
- December 28, 2022, 09:43:39 AMAnother picture of some new-line machines, taken from this Metal Type article: Stempel Type Foundry
Taken in the in the Haus fur Industriekultur, it unfortunately shows the machines from the back.
Taken in the in the Haus fur Industriekultur, it unfortunately shows the machines from the back.
Posted by Dave Hughes
- November 07, 2022, 09:13:50 AMHere's a picture of the opposition, an Elektron:
Read all about the rivalry between the various Linotype factories here: German new-line Linotypes
Read all about the rivalry between the various Linotype factories here: German new-line Linotypes
Posted by Dave Hughes
- November 04, 2022, 08:00:43 AMSpotted on Flickr, this Linotype-Post from 1968 shows some great-looking machines.
Linotype Post 69 by Henning Krause, on Flickr
Linotype Post 69 by Henning Krause, on FlickrPosted by Dave Hughes
- September 08, 2022, 10:24:12 AMIn preparation for a forthcoming Metal Type article about later German Linotypes I have been searching around for images of these machines "in the wild."
This machine appears to be in a museum setting and has the very wide magazines:
This one appears to have found a home in a modern print shop:
This one is definitely a "Europa" - although the nameplate has been moved from where it was in the illustration at the start of this thread. I'm not sure if the TTS equipment at the side belongs to the machine:
These two machines appear to be in a museum setting, one appears to have been working. I don't think they are as modern as the "new line" models though:
This final one (for now) appears to be a "new line" model and has the nameplate in the same place as the first drawing. Has a 6-mould wheel. Not a Europa though:
This machine appears to be in a museum setting and has the very wide magazines:
This one appears to have found a home in a modern print shop:
This one is definitely a "Europa" - although the nameplate has been moved from where it was in the illustration at the start of this thread. I'm not sure if the TTS equipment at the side belongs to the machine:
These two machines appear to be in a museum setting, one appears to have been working. I don't think they are as modern as the "new line" models though:
This final one (for now) appears to be a "new line" model and has the nameplate in the same place as the first drawing. Has a 6-mould wheel. Not a Europa though:
Posted by Dave Hughes
- September 07, 2022, 11:28:11 PMHere's a better picture of the Europa at the Gutenberg Museum:
Posted by Dave Hughes
- September 07, 2022, 03:05:44 PMI spotted this modern-looking German Linotype on Instagram.
Model 16S according to the makers plate.
https://www.instagram.com/p/COvx9FHHDG3/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Model 16S according to the makers plate.
https://www.instagram.com/p/COvx9FHHDG3/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Posted by Dave Hughes
- September 05, 2022, 08:48:51 AMGreat news! @Bruce Anderton has found the brochures he has about the German "new line" machines.
Hopefully we should be able to add an article on these machines to the main site in the near future.
UPDATE: Bruce's excellent article on these machines is now up on the main site: German "new-line" Linotypes
In the meantime, here's a taster:
Hopefully we should be able to add an article on these machines to the main site in the near future.
UPDATE: Bruce's excellent article on these machines is now up on the main site: German "new-line" Linotypes
In the meantime, here's a taster:
Posted by Bruce Anderton
- June 17, 2022, 06:32:50 PMThe machine in your main illustration is the Universa, which is a six-magazine mixer able to mix from any four adjacent magazines. As can be seen, it could accommodate 72- and 90-channel magazines which could be mixed in any combination. It has a six-pocket mould wheel able to cast from 6pt to 42pt. Five sets of distributor screws. Quite a machine!
In the group photo, I think the second machine from the left is the Quadriga, the German equivalent of the English Model 79 or the American Comet, with magazines set at 54-degree angle and able to cast 15 newspaper-width lines per minute when running on tape.
The angle of this shot makes further identification difficult, but I would hope that all six of the New Line models are represented in the museum, seeing as they were the last Linotypes produced by the German company and thus all deserve to be on view from a historical perspective. As can be seen from this view, the line-up is most impressive, in contrast to the fate of the Whittaker collection here in the UK which is now stored and inaccessible in Manchester.
In the group photo, I think the second machine from the left is the Quadriga, the German equivalent of the English Model 79 or the American Comet, with magazines set at 54-degree angle and able to cast 15 newspaper-width lines per minute when running on tape.
The angle of this shot makes further identification difficult, but I would hope that all six of the New Line models are represented in the museum, seeing as they were the last Linotypes produced by the German company and thus all deserve to be on view from a historical perspective. As can be seen from this view, the line-up is most impressive, in contrast to the fate of the Whittaker collection here in the UK which is now stored and inaccessible in Manchester.
Posted by Dave Hughes
- June 14, 2022, 11:28:55 PMA quick Google search using the museum's name, came up with this machine, which I would guess is another of the six 1960s German machines.
There may be the full set of six in this photo:
There may be the full set of six in this photo:
Posted by Bruce Anderton
- June 14, 2022, 09:09:52 PMI would repeat that the best collection of German linecasting machinery is to be found in the Haus für Industriekultur in Darmstadt, where I believe they have on show (and operational) most if not all of the "New Line" models, along with a great many other machines such as Neotypes, Intertypes, Linographs and some even rarer examples.
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