i want to buy this machine

Don't you mean 1866?

No I worked on a lot old machines in the 1960s. This model I worked on from 1966 to 1967 in an old fashioned print shop in Gravesend Kent.

The first printing machine I saw in a poky old print shop where somebody worked in 1973 (Hounslow) was a Heidelberg platen (large version) I thought it was a monstrous contraption. I was only sixteen in 1973 and the following year I got myself into printing, working for a small family business; the owner of the business was a piece of shit to put it politely and he paid us monkey’s wages. The work place itself was a dump and not fit even to keep animals in - No heating, in wintertime cold concrete floors, dirty environment etc. In that place the first printing machine I learned to operate was the Thompson platen, then Heidelberg platen (large version), RotaPrints, R30, R30/90 R40. All the machines in that place where never serviced and were falling apart. The letterpress type we had to work with was so old and battered over years of use; they became unrecognisable to the style they were meant to be (make-ready was a nightmare). After I had served a five year apprenticeship, I left and worked in a different printing shop, starting off on a Crosland (hand-fed) machine and eventually my last machine was a Heidelberg GTO 52.

Redblade I have also work in some very dirty workshops. This machine has had a good clean up and looks like new. The one I worked on was in a right state and due to wear rattled a lot. I did manage to work on some nice machines over the years including some very big photo gravure and flexo machines and a newspaper press.

@@redblade43 sir i would like to know more about this one.

They say it is a German machine but is an exact copy of the "autovic" (Victoria) platen