Photos of the Second ‘Monotype’ Move
20 May 2006, 23:33Returning from Heritage Printers, Charlotte, North Carolina
With the expert help of Bill Welliver and my numerous other helpers the new ‘Monotype’ Composition Caster acquired from Pat Taylor of Heritage Printers in Charlotte, NC, made it safely back to my shop in Lititz, PA, where it has been lavished with preparations for its new assignment.
- Read more about this ‘Monotype’ machine.
- You might also be interested in the Partial Inventory of the Typefoundry
Monotype Composition Caster is poised for unloading. Bill Welliver’s Thompson waits in the back of the truck.
Adam Martin’s hefty rollback makes it’s final approach.
Precision alignment.
And,...PULL!
Easy, now.
How tiny the Monotype Caster looks on the bed of this truck!
Gulp.
Tim Schaefer (my dad) steadies as I try to figure out the odd angle.
Alas, Bill Welliver with the come along to pull it off the bed of the rollback.
More come-along plus brute force.
Hey there’s Reed Dixon on the right. Where’d he come from? Good timing!
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