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All smiles round the stone as the London Evening News bites the dust in 1980. Picture sent in by Dick McWilliams.
Yesterday’s Technology . . . Today!
All smiles round the stone as the London Evening News bites the dust in 1980. Picture sent in by Dick McWilliams.
Picture taken in the 1930s/40s
There are six pages of Yorkshire Evening Press photos on Metal Type. Check the “Related Pages” menu to see the rest.
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.
Photos taken in 1988 during the last days of hot type at the North Carolina (US) company. Sent in by Bob Scurry.
Linotype fan? Don’t miss the Linotype Chat section of the Metal Type Forum.
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.
Photos by Malcolm Gregory of Linotypes leaving London’s Fleet Street for the journey to India in the late 1980s.
Linotype fan? Don’t miss the Linotype Chat section of the Metal Type Forum.