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\nOccupying the entire far end of Hangar L1 is the Wood Press, weighing in at 140 tons, it is one of Wroughton’s star attractions.<\/p>\nBuilt by Henry Wood in New York in 1934, this press formed one fifteenth of the printing capacity of Northcliffe House, home of the Daily Mail and Evening News.<\/p>\n
It was the first of Wood’s ultra-modern all-steel presses which he claimed were the fastest in the world.<\/p>\n
It is 9 metres long, 5 metres wide and 9.3 metres high.<\/p>\n
In 1999 the press was dismantled in Fleet Street and rebuilt at Wroughton. The dismantling took four months, the rebuilding took five months!<\/p>\n
In the process the industrial archaeologists found a collection of fag ends, bean tins and shoes, left by the operators!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deep in the countryside of Wiltshire, in the UK, lies the disused World War Two Airbase RAF Wroughton. In six huge, decaying hangars named in typical military style: L1, L2, etc. lie thousands of the modern world’s greatest treasures, guarded round-the-clock by British Army veterans. 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