What a brilliant description of the wonderful casting machine, FJ Milner & Sons, Brentford 1970-1976, wonderful times.

I worked on the monotype caster machine in the '80s.It was wonderful setting it up and later running it.

My father assembled the Monotype Machines in Philadelphia from the mid 1950s to the Lanston Monotype Machine Company closed in 1970.

True blast from the past. Served my time at F&B Lapworth Typesetters in Shilton. Ran two monotype casters and super caster, then spent many a long hour on monotype keyboard. This was in 1970 - great times.

I served my apprentice on the Monotype caster started in 1966 to 1971, amazing machine! would love to see one again completely working!

Wonderful video!!

i never learned to work on that machine - but i used to be close to one for many years and will never forget the sound(s) it made, fantastic! the crazy thing is, that this is only like 35 years ago - and nowadays nobody knows that machine or the way type was set back then anymore ...

I worked on this type of machine from 1967 to 1977 They could be quite troublesome as we had quite a few visits from a technician at Salfords works.

This was incredibly helpful. I was looking at a marriage certificate and monotype caster man was the occupation listed of the groom circ 1923 and I had no idea. Thanks.

Blast from the past. Worked in a printers in Newark, Notts. who had this system.

Brian Goodson from Dublin was the best monotype caster I ever knew. Not a bad rugby player either!!

Um, the caster was capable of far more than 40 ems pica. If memory serves it was in fact 60 ems pica. What it couldn't do at over 40 ems was push the galley slide back to its starting point.The galley slide was a thin rectangular piece of metal which would support the type being assembled in the type assembly channel, so that as type was being pushed out from being moulded, the type wouldn't fall over. Thus the galley slide would be pushed along with the line of cast type as the length of the line increased character by character. When the justification signal was tripped, the line delivery mechanism would pull the line of type out, push it on to the galley under the raising gate,, and would be returned to its starting position - along with the galley slide, waiting for the next line of type to support. And so long as the machine went through 7 revolutions, this would happen each and every time. However, at over 40 ems, whilst the line delivery mechanism was still automatic, what it couldn't do was push the galley slide back with itself. Thus the operator physically had to push the galley slide back to its starting point - there was even a notch in the galley slide to do just that. Yes, I know there was an attachment that could actually make that happen automatically but it wasn't reliable.

The typecaster did not put in the lead , he would use something called wriglet, a thin but strong piece of wood that he had cut to the galley spec on the reel label.

His awkward pauses make it look like he's being told what to say through an earpiece.

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