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Yorkshire Evening Press, 1954 News of the World, 1986 Jaggers Chiles Stovall, 1970 The Linotype Line Blue Streak Comet Blue Streak Model 5 Meteor Blue Streak Models 29 & 30 Thorold Post, c1920 Blue Streak Model 31 Intertype Factory, 1966 Linofilm System Range­master Model 33/34 Range­master Model 35 New York Times 1942 Linotype Optional Extras c1960 Rail­way/­road Press Car 1913 New York Herald c1910 Bureau of Engraving & Printing c1930

Yorkshire Evening Press, 1954

Front cover of the October 1954 edition of The Newsman

Many thanks to an ex-colleague, Ian Cottom, for sending in a scan of the front cover of "The Newsman" from October 1954.

I've got to say that I'd never seen this publication before. The blurb at the bottom has been cut off, but sounds intriguing: "The live journal for the progressive newsman and . . .



The composing room of the Yorkshire Evening Press, Coney Street, York, circa 1954

Featured on the photograph, as Ian recalls: Syd Wynn, nearest, Me (Ian Cottom), Sam Doherty (Napper), Wilf Benson, Armstrong, Bob Anley and I think Don Wilkinson (stone sub-editor)



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