Category: Composition

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.

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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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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 . . .

Intertype Model C4

Intertype Model C4


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 . . .