Hi , nice to see some of these machines have been retained in use. I was apprenticed at my local paper in 1970 as a linotype intertype mechanic and maintained around 35 of these machines from the earliest model 4 i think built around 1906 to the latest intertypes fitted with TTS punched paper tape for operation in the classified adds. These were made obselete i guess around 1978 but were retained for quite a few years`just in case paste up didn,t work out i guess ? I remember that our paper
put up a new building around the old one without even a day of disruption to the daily paper. I have lost count at the number of these lintype i have dismantled and put together again in different parts of the building as the new building went up ! I remember on the TTS operated Intertype we had 4 machines running without stoppage for 20 mins without missing a single matrice, we would have fun side bets to see how long they would run without attention , Great machines, every single one had
it,s very own personality ! and sometimes given names by the operators, A very exiting workplace in the comps room , and still today i remember the smell as being very unique. Is 1970 so very far away i am only 56 and yet the very thing that i apprenticed, is now a museum piece, A wonderful solid and dependable machine used day after day for decades which benefits people building their skill sets over a period of a lifetime and then being passed on to the new apprentices is the real museum
Hi , nice to see some of these machines have been retained in use. I was apprenticed at my local paper in 1970 as a linotype intertype mechanic and maintained around 35 of these machines from the earliest model 4 i think built around 1906 to the latest intertypes fitted with TTS punched paper tape for operation in the classified adds. These were made obselete i guess around 1978 but were retained for quite a few years`just in case paste up didn,t work out i guess ? I remember that our paper
Debates50 10 months ago
put up a new building around the old one without even a day of disruption to the daily paper. I have lost count at the number of these lintype i have dismantled and put together again in different parts of the building as the new building went up ! I remember on the TTS operated Intertype we had 4 machines running without stoppage for 20 mins without missing a single matrice, we would have fun side bets to see how long they would run without attention , Great machines, every single one had
Debates50 10 months ago
it,s very own personality ! and sometimes given names by the operators, A very exiting workplace in the comps room , and still today i remember the smell as being very unique. Is 1970 so very far away i am only 56 and yet the very thing that i apprenticed, is now a museum piece, A wonderful solid and dependable machine used day after day for decades which benefits people building their skill sets over a period of a lifetime and then being passed on to the new apprentices is the real museum
Debates50 10 months ago
I've got a C4 great machines
thanks for posting
elrodfk 2 years ago