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Subject: Ex-linotype op Author: John Crump [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 08:35:10 12/04/01 Tue Well Dave what a great site. For some reason I just typed Linotype in Google and hey presto, out you came. Well I'm just getting the hang of this keyboard after working a few years as a Lino and Intertype Op. Like quite a few folk on this site I live in NZ although I'm English by birth. I worked at St Stephens Bristol Press (alas no more) in 64 and we had five machines all Intertypes from Slough. I started on a C3 with had a pure velvet keyboard and eventually worked up to the flash C4 with quadder, they had a Monarch too. I came to NZ in 1970 and worked for the Wellington Dominion and later the Evening Post too. The Dom had some really ancient American linos made from a place called South Hackansack New Jersey, the first time I had used American made equipment. It was poorly maintained and we had frequent breakdowns. For some reason they took the font distinguishers off line and one ended up with a load of wrong fonts in your proof. Both the newspapers were great papers to work. I also worked for Coulls Somerville and Wilkie in Wellington (soon to be amalgamated with Whitcombe and Tombs) to be known as Whitcoulls. Great to work on a well maintained C4 again virtually on the DSIR magazine. Well that's enough for now. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Ex Linotype Operator Keith Prentice 09:30:29 12/06/01 Thu Another NZ ex-Linotype operator -- Dan Cole, 00:47:56 03/17/02 Sun Reply to NZ ex-Linotype operator Dan Cole -- Keith Prentice, 05:02:42 06/15/02 Sat HOT METAL TYPESETTING . . . . . BILL NAIRN 00:57:36 12/18/01 Tue