Category: Historical

Many thanks to George Finn for contributing this article.

Copy (1) prepared on a special typewriter was fed into the machine, guided by sprocket holes each side of the sheet, similar to continuous stationery. Read the Full Article . . .

This is the first such machine that actually operated.

The type was arranged in cells around the circumference of a horizontal wheel. As the wheel revolved, several receivers also started to rotate. The desired type was picked up and dropped in proper order in a line. Read the Full Article . . .

Ralf Hermann sent in these pictures of a Linotype Europa, which was featured in the German publication, Linotype Post, Issue 65, dated March 1966.

The article said that this new model was based on the existing four-magazine mixing model 10a IV. Read the Full Article . . .

This item was recently offered for sale on eBay.

Strong claims here for the Intertype and an illustration of what appears to be a Model A machine. Read the Full Article . . .

This illustrated advertising postcard was recently offered for sale on eBay.

Under the 1886 illustration of a rather shabby-looking Blower it states: “One face, one body, one measure.” Read the Full Article . . .

Taken from the book “Operation and Mechanism of the Linotype and Intertype” by J Ashworth, first published in 1955.

Used with Linotypes and Intertypes, these saws extend the scope of work from the keyboard to cover line measures from one em to lines of any length. Very narrow measures can be set as normal-measure work at the keyboard, and the slugs cut on the saw to the measures required. Read the Full Article . . .

Taken from the book “Operation and Mechanism of the Linotype and Intertype” by J Ashworth, first published in 1955.

THIS specially-designed TTS Linotype apart from its special high-speed features, is manufactured and equipped on similar lines to the standard Model 48. Read the Full Article . . .

Taken from the book “Operation and Mechanism of the Linotype and Intertype” by J Ashworth, first published in 1955.

1, a display slug partially stripped; 2, the control knob of the slug-holding clamp; 3, a slug stripped ready for use; 4, the type metal gauge block; 5, the micrometer gauge, calibrated in thousandths of an inch. Read the Full Article . . .