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SIMPLICITY of design and construction is the predominant feature of the Intertype Model C.
The same simple assembling and distributing mechanisms that are used on the single- and two-magazine Intertypes are also used on this three-magazine machine, and it has the same direct connection between escapements and keyboard rods.
THE MODEL B two-magazine Intertype combines all the advantages of a single-magazine machine with the versatility afforded by multiple-magazine construction.
Changes from one magazine to the other are made in two or three seconds.
INTERTYPE Model A is the highest development in the field of single-magazine composing machines.
It is as far superior to earlier machines of its class as a modern automobile is superior to the cars brought out several years ago.
Model A is a single distributor machine with one 90-channel main magazine. The machine may be equipped with one or three 34-channel side magazines (A-1 s.m. and A-3 s.m.). Rear removal of main magazine.
All single distributor A machines are convertible into corresponding single distributor models with two or three 90-channel main magazines (B and C). Similarly any of the models may have one or three side magazines.
Most of the following illustrations and model descriptions were taken from “Intertype Book of Instruction” published by the Intertype Corporation in 1943, with the exception of Models A, B and C which were taken from a pamphlet entitled “Standardised and Interchangeable Intertypes” which it is believed was published in 1917.
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THESE MODELS are the latest development in the single distributor class of Linotype.
They are designed to not only to cover the field so long and creditably occupied by Models 8 and 14, but to extend that field because of their increased magazine equipment, quicker magazine change and various other worthwhile developments to increase operating efficiency.
MODELS 29 AND 30 are the successors in the mixing-machine field to Models 25 and 26.
Carrying up to four main magazines – and on the Model 30, as many as four auxiliary magazines also – they afford continuous mixed composition from, and continuous distribution to, adjacent pairs of magazines.
THIS MACHINE is the same as Model 27 with the addition of one, two or three wide 34-channel auxiliary magazines, which enable it to carry more faces and slightly larger faces than even the Model 27.
Wide 36 point and condensed faces up to 60 point can be run, with the caps in an auxiliary and the lower case in the cap side of one of the main magazines.
THE ADDITION of two 34-channel extra wide auxiliary magazines makes a Model 26 of the 25.
Matrices from these two magazines can be freely mixed with each other and with those from either of the two main magazines.
THE ADVANTAGES of multiple distribution are not confined to work on which it is desired to mix matrices from various magazines.
Multiple distribution means that any character in the machine is available at once; that you can shift from one magazine to the other or set a correction line from either, without even waiting for the last line to distribute.