Yesterday’s Technology . . . Today!
THE WHITTAKER COLLECTION of linecasters was put together by Mr H Peter Whittaker whose company sold and repaired linecasters.
The collection is currently in storage room 2 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
To see the various machines, use the Related Pages menu.
Many thanks to Graham Rains for digging out this very atmospheric photograph of him operating a Model G Intertype at Druckman Press, Hemel Hemstead, Hertfordshire, UK in 1984.
Intertype fan? Don’t miss the Intertype Chat section of the Metal Type Forum.
Many thanks to John Nixon for sending in this article. Says John: “The attached article appeared in The Imprint magazine, which was a printing union publication in New Zealand.
“The contributor, Tom Atkinson, was the Deputy Day Printer when I started my apprenticeship in 1970.
Taken from a Linotype brochure published in Berlin in the 1930s. Some quite unusual machines.
Linotype fan? Don’t miss the Linotype Chat section of the Metal Type Forum.
Thanks to Richard Goodwin for sending in these photographs taken at the Quincy Patriot Ledger between 1969 and 1975.
Thanks to Teo Pelho, from Finland, for sending in these pictures, taken at the Deutsches Museum, Munich and the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany.
I have very little information about the pictures, so if you think you can “flesh out” any of the captions, please post your suggestions here. Please refer to the pictures by number.
Andy Taylor took this video of Amberley Museum volunteer Richard at work on the West Sussex, UK attraction’s Model 78 Linotype.
Richard looks like an experienced operator, his keyboard technique is very smooth – not the “pick and peck” method seen on so many of these type of videos.
Many thanks to Andy Taylor, of the Elrod Press, for sending in this video of his Elrod strip caster producing 36pt mounting material for 8-guage magnesium plates.
Need some strip material? Click here to open a PDF (in a new window) which shows the varied materials Andy can cast, along with his contact details.
Some of you may remember an article that appeared on Metal Type last year called David Evans, A New Era, 2011. It took a look at David Evans’ move from Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK to new premises in Mytholmroyd, four miles up the road.
David, and new partner Stanley Wilson, have even managed to add to their collection of letterpress equipment since the move. I visited the new premises again in June 2012.
