Category: Composition

Linotype Elektron

Linotype Elektron

Many thanks to Ralph Voogd for sending in this photo and caption.

This picture was taken when I was working at the Albuquerque Journal-Tribune, in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA, back in the mid ’70s. It appeared in an issue of the ITU Review. Read the Full Article . . .

Linotype Factory, Brooklyn

Linotype factory
A picture of the Linotype Factory in Brooklyn, New York, USA. I would guess (looking at the vehicles) it dates from some time between the turn of the 20th Century and World War One. The small print at the bottom proclaims it to be “The Largest Composing Machine Factory in the World.” I think it may have been produced as a postcard.

A superb colour illustration of the Linotype Factory in Brooklyn, New York, USA from about 1900-1920. Kindly sent in by Roy Daniels.

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Burlington Press & Electrical Press

Mike Wilson
I’m on the Linotype in Burlington Press, Bridlington, a one-man operation (my Dad and my mother) until his death in 1978. I’m probably on holiday from Aylesbury, where I was department overseer on the Bucks Herald. I worked a brand new Intertype there, a model that came out before the days of the Elektrons etc. A ten-line-a-minute job with a blower etc. But I could still keep a line hanging. But despite the blower the mould got so hot that it would splash often, and the union man told me to slow down or everyone would have to work at my speed. They promised me an output bonus but it never materialised.

Mike Wilson also sent in these pictures of himself and his father.

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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 Craig
Harry Craig has been working all his life on Linotype machines. Here he is, at 75 years of age, still doing photomount typesetting with a linotype 31.

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

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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)

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Intertype Model G4-4SM

Intertype Model G4-4SM

The Model G4 is a double distributor mixer machine with four main magazines.

The magazines are of the wide 72-channel and 90-channel types and are available in any desired combination: two wide 72-channel and two 90-channel magazines, or one wide 72-channel and three 90-channel magazines, or three wide 72-channel and one 90-channel magazines. Read the Full Article . . .

Intertype Model F4

Intertype Model F4


The Model F4 is a double distributor mixer machine with four 90-channel main magazines.

This machine may be equipped with two or four 34-channel side magazines (F4-2s.m. and F4-4s.m.). Front removal of main magazines. Read the Full Article . . .

Intertype Model C4-4SM

Intertype Model C4-4SM


The Model C4 is a Universal Straight Machine (single distributor) and requires a magazine shift each time a change is made from one main magazine to another or from one side magazine to another.

Two types of straight machines are available: the straight C type, which carries standard 90-channel main magazines and the straight H type, which is equipped with main magazines of the standard wide 72-channel type. Read the Full Article . . .