Dave's Linotype Website

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The photographs on the following pages were all taken at The Printing House Museum, Cockermouth, Cumbria. I can thoroughly recommend the museum to anyone visiting that part of Britain. Click here to go to their website for more details.

Please feel free to use these images for your own purposes. A credit, or better still a link, to Dave's Linotype Website would be appreciated. To buy a photographic print of any of these images please e-mail me for prices and details. Click on any photo for an enlarged version.

Linotype Model 78SM

A Linotype Model 78SM in absolutely new and unused condition. Is this the last Linotype ever made? Prepared for export in 1985, but never sent.



Linotype Model 78SM - closer

A closer look at the same Model 78. The small keyboard to the right is to operate the side magazine (capitals only).


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