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“All letterpress apprentice Printers had to attend the school once a year for two weeks during the first three years of their apprenticeship.

“No student loans in those days. Travel, accommodation, food etc was courtesy of the New Zealand Government.”

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Machinery In The Modern Printing Plant of the ‘Northland Age’ –

TOP left: The Klischograph Photo Engraving Machine. This machine played a big
part in the engraving of blocks for this magazine. Right: The Leitz Enlarger in our
modern photographic department. LOWER right: 2 typesetting machines. Left:
The thirteen and a half ton Cossar printing machine on which the Northland Age is
printed twice weekly. BOTTOM left: One of our Heidelberg letterpress machines
used for the many printing jobs required in your business – letterheads,
statements, docket books, wedding invites, catalogues etc.

Top left: Trimming paper on the guillotine. Top right: Keeping the accounts straight.
Centre: The Linotype machines. Bottom left: A printing machine for small work.
Bottom right: The machine which prints ‘The Northlander.’

Left Panel reads: We Are Printers of Everything. Right Panel: Let The News Do That Next Job.
Centre Panel:
“The News” Printing Department has the machines, and men to look after all your
printing requirements. It costs nothing to get a quote.

NEWS LTD
Box 1 KAIKOHE Phone 321
“The Northlander” was printed in Kaikohe by “The News”

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Thompson British Installation & Operator’s Manual

A nice, clean 17-page document with a couple of illustrations in PDF format (464KB). Sent in by Andy Taylor of AJT Typesetting and Printing. Click the heading to start the download.

Thompson Instruction Manual

The Thompson Automatic (British version) Instruction and Operator’s Manual, including maintenance, in PDF format. Sent in by Andy Taylor of AJT Typesetting and Printing. 36 Pages (644KB).

Thompson British Automatic Platen List of Parts

53 pages, with lots of illustrations in PDF format. Sent in by Andy Taylor of AJT Typesetting and Printing. (8.5MB).

Miehle V50 Vertical Instruction Book

37 pages, lots of illustrations. Sections on installation, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting in PDF format (11.3MB).

Miehle Vertical Press Catalogue of Parts

Every part of the press, both American and English versions, illustrated and catalogued. 37 pages in PDF format (8.39MB).

Printomatic Stop Cylinder Press

A 55-page document, with many illustrations, wiring diagrams, etc. Not as clean as the Thompson manual, made from scans of the original document. Sent in by Andy Taylor of AJT Typesetting and Printing. PDF format (1.9MB).

Multigraph Printer Instruction Manual

Online instruction book for Multigraph Printers can be found at Archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/multi-instruction

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A rather cynical commentator has said: “And each worker adding a single impossible-to-remove taper-pinned part.” Sounds like the comment is a result of bitter experience!

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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.

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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.

Visit the Urban Cottage Industries website at: http://urbancottageindustries.co.uk/ – They sell brilliant Historic Lighting, and do some clever things with letterpress.

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This article was published in “Seclarion” the newsletter of Seligson & Clare (Aust) Pty Ltd, the Australian Agents for Heidelberg at that time.

“This was the scene at the Wiesloch plant of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG on December 10, 1968, when the company celebrated the completion of the 200,000th Original Heidelberg press – a Model SBDZ two-colour rotary / flatbed cylinder.

The two figures in the centre foreground are (left) the foreman of the assembly line for Heidelberg S Line presses and (right) the chairman and managing director of the company, Dr. Ing E.h. Hubert H.A. Sternberg.

In the centre background is the anniversary press backed by the six crates into which it was subsequently packed for shipment to Australia and installation at the Richmond plant of Shipping Newspapers (Vic.) Ltd.

The German and Australian flags are seen flanking an enlarged replica of the 200,000th Heidelberg plaque which will be affixed to the press after installation. A small gold replica of this plaque was also shipped along with the press for presentation to its new owners.

Following the official ceremonies, which were witnessed by the staff of the Wiesloch plant, company executives and their guests, were given a tour of the plant and a gala party wound up the day’s proceedings.

The 200,000th Heidelberg was then crated and delivered to the Nord-Deutscher Lloyd freighter MS ‘Tannstein’ at Hamburg where, after another departure ceremony, it left Germany on the journey to Australia.”

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Robert said: “My father started as a typesetter in 1928. He opened his print shop in Brussels in 1937. I studied at the School Amsterdamse Grafische (1956-1960) and worked in the family print shop in Brussels. In addition, I gave over 13 years at the National School of Visual Arts of La Cambre (1993-2005). Since 1980 member of the Rencontres Internationales de Lure, and I met Francois Boltana.

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