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Wairoa Star, New Zealand

Type in composing stick (72pt Christchurch Bold Condensed).

Pictures sent in by Graeme How, taken in the late 60s and early 70s.

We have four pages of articles about the Wairoa Star sent in by Graeme, check the “Related Pages” menu to see the others. Read the Full Article . . .

Queensland Newspapers, Brisbane

Pages waiting to be dissed — Pages being lined up for the last time before being dissed.

Pictures of the last day of hot metal production, sent in by Alan Jones.

The photographs that follow were scanned in from a special edition published by Queensland Newspapers in Brisbane, Australia back in 1982. Read the Full Article . . .

In January 2002 I was invited by David Evans to look round the company where he works. They have 6 or so Intertype C4s which are mainly used to produce people’s names on slugs. The slugs are then used to personalise pencils, pencil cases, bookmarks, etc. with gold blocking.

Intertype fan? Don’t miss the Intertype Chat section of the Metal Type Forum. Read the Full Article . . .

London Evening News 1980

London Evening News stonehands — Dick McWilliams and colleagues round the stone at the London Evening News. The picture was taken the day the paper folded at the end of 1980 after losing out in the circulation war with the London Evening Standard. Dick (a sub) is to the right with glasses and no apron.

All smiles round the stone as the London Evening News bites the dust in 1980. Picture sent in by Dick McWilliams.

Hemphill County News

Picture taken in the 1930s/40s

Yorkshire Evening Press

Stonehands — Yorkshire Evening Press stonehands posing in front of a Ludlow, late 1970s. The guy leaning in from the left is John Bradley, the big guy to the right at the back is Bob Procter, next to him Derek Johnson, left of him John Langthorp (wearing the “hat”) and the man at the front in the grey jacket was Frank Smith.

There are six pages of Yorkshire Evening Press photos on Metal Type. Check the “Related Pages” menu to see the rest.

Harry Craig

Harry, from New Zealand owns and maintains three Linotype machines. Pictures sent in by his colleague, Tim Ede.

Linotype fan? Don’t miss the Linotype Chat section of the Metal Type Forum. Read the Full Article . . .

Cosco Printing

Linotype Model 8 — Edward operating a Model 8 Linotype in June 1988, towards the end of the hot type days at Cosco Printing in North Carolina (US).

Photos taken in 1988 during the last days of hot type at the North Carolina (US) company. Sent in by Bob Scurry.

Edward Farnell (1915-1998)

Linotype fan? Don’t miss the Linotype Chat section of the Metal Type Forum. Read the Full Article . . .

Sunday Telegraph UK

George Clark, who has also written two stories for Metal Type, sent in these photographs of the last days of hot metal.

Welcome to Metal Type

METAL TYPE is the place for printers, typesetters and newspaper workers, who fondly remember those letterpress days, to come and reminisce.

The site originally concentrated on the ingenious Linotype mechanical typesetting machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1884. Read the Full Article . . .