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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 . . .

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

Hemphill County News
Elna and Othello Miller at work side by side at the Linotype machines. The couple founded the “Hemphill County News”, a weekly newspaper in Canadian, Texas in 1938. Othello Miller was the Editor-publisher and Mrs. Miller was in charge of reporting and advertising. The paper ceased publication after 30 years with the death of Mr. Miller in 1968.

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 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.

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
George Clark on the last day of hot metal at the Sunday Telegraph, 29th March 1986.

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

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 . . .