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Welcome to the Metal Type Library. Here you'll find documents, instruction manuals, etc. available to download. Most of the documents are PDF files, and will require Adobe Reader installed on your computer to view them.
A nice, clean 17-page document with a couple of illustrations in PDF format (464KB). Click the heading to start the download.
The Thompson Automatic (British version) Instruction and Operator's Manual, including maintenance, in PDF format. 36 Pages (644KB).
53 pages, with lots of illustrations in PDF format (8.5MB).
37 pages, lots of illustrations. Sections on installation, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting in PDF format (11.3MB).
Every part of the press, both American and English versions, illustrated and catalogued. 37 pages in PDF format (8.39MB).
A 55-page document, with many illustrations, wiring diagrams, etc. Not as clean as the Thompson manual, made from scans of the original document. PDF format (1.9MB).
55 pages, illustations, maintenance, adjustments, wiring diagrams and parts list PDF format (11.61MB).
Published by the Linotype Corporation in 1937. Useful information, including notches, tooth combinations, face identification numbers, suggested font schemes, accented characters, keyboard diagrams, All-Purpose Linotype matrix information, typographic refinements, etc. PDF format (3.41MB).
An 8-page document, probably from the early 1900s, extolling the virtues of the new Linotype over the previous "Blower" machines. PDF format (273KB).
Instructions and parts list, 17 pages, with some illustrations. PDF format (544KB).
French Language. Operator's instruction manual. 110 pages. PDF format (9.18MB).
12-page advertising brochure for the Intertype Quadder, with some nice illustrations. PDF format (2.74MB).
Functions, care, operation and adjustment. 24 pages, illustrated. PDF format (555KB).
72-page instruction manual and fault-finding guide, with illustrations for this device that was used on high-speed tape-operated linecasters. PDF format (21.9MB). The Patent Application for this device is also available to download. PDF format, 10 pages (2.6MB).
Instruction manual with parts list and wiring diagram. 53 pages. PDF format (3.47MB).
Instruction manual with parts list, number 8 (revised) edition. 169 pages, with illustrations. PDF format (9.54MB).
Instruction manual with parts list, includes trouble-shooting guide. 97 pages, with illustrations. PDF format (5.65MB).
Makeready details and techniques, 32-page illustrated booklet from the Cromwell Paper Company. PDF format (3.25MB).
A nice 1-page diagram and instructions on how to make a pressman's hat from a sheet of newspaper, produced by Ayre & Spottiswoode Ltd., Her Majesty's Printers. PDF format (642KB).
A small selection of Letterpress Ebay listings appear below. A much bigger selection appears here. Linotype-related Ebay listings are here.