Field Day of the Past 2010 - Intertype machine (similar to Linotype)

This machine assembles a string of letter dies as the user types which are then used as molds to cast an entire line of type out of lead. Then the machine automatically resorts the individual letter dies back into the approriate slots on the feeder.

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[UErzsi]

Összeszorul a szívem!! 1972-1990-ig linószedő voltam Budapesten a Zrínyi nyomdában, a 20-as gépen! Böbe

[wyaldrapress]

We have 2 C4's and a star base C3 Inters running at our museum in Gulgong Australia and I have at least one working when I am there. Great machines. Arthur

[delcee715]

Looks and sounds familar. Operated it 17 yrs.

[1truckerbob]

Even though I never ran one this machines (we did have a Ludlow as when I started in the trade we were mostly offset ) I remember my dad telling stories. It was like when he talked his kids. The men and women who ran these machines were a breed all thier own. Any one who has ever seen these machine run has to be amased as almost ever part moves at the same time perfectly.

[Debates50]

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 piec

[Debates50]

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]

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 newspaper

[aposcovsky]

I set many a line in the my days as a letterpress man.