The ads are typical WWII patriotic propaganda that was found in the advertising of many, many companies.

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Said Tony: “When I was a kid I accompanied my dad to many newspapers in the area where he would, late in the evening, install these devices on the Mergs. I was in grade school and didn’t understand what he did but I was mesmerised watching those machines run — still am.”

More details of this device can be found here: Shaffstall Mat Detector

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Many thanks to Eric Earnshaw for sending in this brochure which showcased Allied Newspaper’s Withy Grove, Manchester, UK “Allied House” newspaper plant.

Enjoyed the photos? Well, you’ve found the main page! But there’s another couple of pages on Metal Type you may have missed. More photos here: Withy Grove (no names for the people photographed though, maybe you could help out in the Comments) – and some pics sent in by Eric Saltmarsh here: Men and Machines. 

NEW: Withy Grove Forum

There has been such a large response to these posts that I have decided to set up a special sub-board on the Metal Type forum. I hope people will find it useful.

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You can read more about how Doug came across these images on the Metal Type forum here: Linotype: The Book.

More factory photographs: Don’t miss some great photographs from the Intertype factory in Brooklyn, USA in 1966. Intertype Factory, 1966

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You can read more about how Doug came across these images on the Metal Type forum here: Linotype: The Book.

If anyone would like to fill in the names of the “Unknown typesetting machines” on this page, please do so in the comments.

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These gifts would have been given away at trade shows and exhibitions early in the 20th Century.

Says Rocky: “I don’t know the scarcity of the 2 items attached, but thought you might want to post if you think others might find them interesting. The idea of making a cigar cutter out of a matrix to use at trade show giveaways in the early 1900’s I find quite ingenious.

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I would imagine in those days the first one to apply would get the job, and earn enough money to live on. How times have changed!

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His grandfather Joseph Henry Davis was born in 1884 and entered the print industry at the age of 14. You can read more about his career in London and view his indenture document here: 1898 Indentures.

Some of the later cards in this collection have been used to fill the gaps in Dave Bowles’ collection here: British Print Trade Union Cards 1946-1993.

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Chris says: “I gleaned the following from my grandfather’s last surviving daughter, my aunt.

“Joseph Henry Davis (b1884) began a 6 year apprenticeship as a compositor with John White of Sugar Loaf Court, Garlick Hill, London in 1898, aged 14 years. He later worked for Eyre and Spottiswoode, a high-end printing company in London known for printing bibles amongst other things.

It’s not known when Joseph started working for the Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald but it may have coincided with him joining the union in June 1918, following his time serving in the army during WW1.

He became Father of the Chapel and stayed with the paper until the outbreak of  WW11 when he was put on war work. After the war he worked at a printers in Stratford, London until retirement around 1949.

However, he soon returned to work, finally retiring in 1954, aged 70 years. Even during retirement he maintained membership of the union and seems to have paid his 1966 subs before sadly dying at the end of 1965.”

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