Booklets and objects relating to the employment of the donor at The Guardian and Manchester Evening News, reflecting the work of a typesetter. Collection includes booklets, posters, union publications, promotional literature, measuring rules, and wage rates. Includes technical reference guides relating to typefaces, compositing and typography, and records of union membership. Booklets relating to Typography used by Typesetter Derek Manton 1950-1980
L&M World, Volume 1, number 1. Staff journal, Linotype & Machinery Ltd, 1930. Linotype and Machinery staff journal 1930-12
Catalogues included; Illustrated Catalogue Linotype Parts and Supplies for English Models 3 and 4; The Linotype Manual; Linotype Decorative Material Supplementing Edition of April 1925 and brochures for The L&M Letterpress Perfector; Linotype Model 48. Five catalogues from Linotype & Machinery Ltd 1911-1964
Company archive of Linotype and Machinery Limited, its predecessor companies the Linotype Company Limited and the Machinery Trust Limited, and a variety of subsidiary companies responsible for manufacturing or selling composing and printing machinery or supplying consumables required by the printing trades. The collection consists of: Articles of Association, deed and mortgage registers, minutes of various meetings, employment records, stocks and share records, customer order books, correspondence, operation and service manuals, Linotype & Machinery machine registers, typeface specimen books, trade literature and brochures, various in-house publications (L&M News, The Grapevine, Linotype Notes and The Linotype Record), a collection of bound patents for machines and resulting improvements to them registered both in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. The collection also includes copies of documents relating to operational agreements with the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of New York. Business records from Linotype & Machinery Ltd of Broadheath, Altrincham 1860-1983
Linotype and Machinery Ltd - Deeds and Contracts, Linotype and Machinery Limited, Broadheath, 1895-1982 Linotype and Machinery Ltd - Deeds and Contracts 1895-1982
Illustrated manual for Linotype machinery, also giving a history of Linotype. Linotype and Machinery Limited, 1964. Linotype and Machinary Limited manual 1964
Black and white photographs of Linotype & Machinery sales department annual dinners, reunions, and a menu from a sales conference dinner, 1953-1969. Photographs and menu from Linotype & Machinery Sales Department dinners 1953-1969
Handbook for feeders currently fitted to Centurion and Centurette presses. The Care and Adjustment of the L&M Roll-Back Stream Feeder. 1955
A booklet for the care and adjustment of the Centurette two-revolution press. Also, a leaflet marketing additional pieces of equipment to increase the automation of the loading and printing process. Booklets relating to the Centurette two-revolution press 1947
Line casting machine. Has 4 panels not attached. Manufactured by Linotype, Cheshire. Line Casting Machine
Posters of Linotype 785 showing parts and giving instructions on usage. Used at Fielden Park College. Linotype and Machinery Limited, Manchester, c1975. Posters of Linotype 785 for Fielden Park College circa 1975
The collection consists of personal papers relating to the employment of three generations of the Whitelegg family at Linotype & Machinery, and includes a staff identity card, apprenticeship certificates, production notebooks, trade union membership cards and photographs showing various departments in the company. The photographs consist of official staff photographs, informal photographs of staff on outings, official photographs of staff at work and products, and informal photographs of staff at work. Collection of papers relating to employment at Linotype & Machinery Ltd. 1925-1986
Illustrated catalogue of Matrix Slides. Linotype and Machinery Limited, London, 1960. Catalogue of Linotype matrix slides 1960