Red Streak Linotype?

[Dave Hughes]

Spotted this on Instagram, posted by the International Printing Museum (California, USA branch).

My eye was drawn to the red Linotype nameplate. Red Streak?

There's plenty of information on the main site about Blue Streaks: Blue Streak Linotypes, but I have never seen a mention of a Red Streak.

Has anyone seen or heard of one? Or does the International Printing Museum have a counterfeit nameplate in its collection?

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[Mechanic]

The only red Linotype name plate I've seen is the Elektron.

[Doug Wilson]

In my almost 15 years of research and learning about the Linotype, I've never seen nor read anything about a "Red Streak" model!

[Mechanic]

Why not a Green Streak. After all this is the century to save the planet.
Looking at the Read Streak name plate it does look like it was manufactured. I wonder if it was made as a sample when the Elektron was being developed, or someone whose job it was to make the plates made one as a joke.
The LINOTYPE nameplates, like this at the top of magazine bracket had only LINOTYPE and trade mark. There was no indication of the model series. The Blue Streak series started with introduction of the swinging keyboard.

[Dave Hughes]

That looks suspiciously like a Photoshopped image to me George, the poorly-aligned "STREAK" would never have got past the quality control of an old-school iron founder!

At least we know that the Red Streak one exists, notice the kerning between the E of Linotype and STREAK:

[Dave Hughes]

At the risk of going off on a tangent, I love this old Intertype sign that Doug Wilson posted on Twitter a little while back.

https://twitter.com/realdougwilson/status/1516085383146131467/

[Mechanic]

Dave the GREEN STREAK is a photo shop by me as a joke. Sorry I didn't make that clear.

I agree the RED STREAK is a genuine metal plate. That is what I was discussing when I said why I thought it may have been made. As a sample or a keep sake for someone. I just know it never appeared on an American Linotype. Mergenthaler only put trademark details at each end of LINOTYPE on the name plate attached to the top of the machine.