Wharfedale Stop Cylinder Press

[@MisterHampshire]

Heck. I'm 60 as at 2023 and I started my apprenticeship in print in an awfully dated, even for the day, printers where my apprenticeship centred on operating the Monotype keyboard and caster. Dreadful place it was, refusing to update: 'this is the way printing is done my boy' mentality. Small wonder it didn't last the course (not that many printers have now). Whilst they had two (relatively) modern Heidelberg 10x15 platens and a Cropper for very short runs, they had a massive stick flyer Wharfedale demy. Lethal thing it was with a massive exposed flywheel, although cordoned off by the time I'd started. Thankfully, though I produced a few jobs on the Heidelbergs when the need arose, I never touched the Wharfedale. Hated it. But I remember it being run by my older colleagues. That massive bed sliding back and forth with the machine making a distinctive 'gerrrrrrrr, gerrrrrrrr' as it made each impression, followed by the 'clack' of the stick flyers returning for the next sheet. This video brought back those memories.

[@ThatGirlWithTheCoffee]

Rest in Peace, Alfred McCormack, 22 July 1931-3 June 2018. Your final 'Knocking Out' at your funeral just proved that your blood ran black with ink, and we miss you each day.

[@iankearns774]

Is that the fella in the clip? My Dad was born in 1926 and passed away 2013 so was a similar vintage and he ran these machines. He was still printing in his 60's before retiring, yes we miss them every day. Ink ran through his blood and my older brother who was a compositor and passed in 2019. RIP to the three of them. I keep the tradition alive myself as I have been a Printer since 1982.

[@roymichaeldeanable]

This guy is incorrect The Foreman wasn't concerned whether the quality was acceptable... What he missed out is that before anything is printed and prior to the button being pushed the sheet was Proof Read and signed.... Nothing was printed unless Proof Read first... I was trained as a Letterpress Printer in the 1960s

[@ronnieg6358]

As a letterpress apprentice in the 60s I just missed running a Wharfedale. It was scrapped before my turn came round. I progressed from a Victoria platen to a Rotaprint. Eventually via a Heidelberg Cylinder and Miehle 2 rev to a K&B Pax prefector, a 70 ton monster!

[@iankearns774]

This is the Stick Flyer my Dad used to talk about. He ran these in the 1940's, he ran 4 colour process on them. Later years he ran Heidelberg Platens and then big Goss Gravure presses. I will stick with my Litho printing I reckon.

[@thomasjoyce1452]

I worked with this machine in the forth year of my apprenticeship we used it mainly for double crown posters usually short runs we did our own hand feeding, good quality images.

[@MisterHampshire]

Heck. I'm 60 as at 2023 and I started my apprenticeship in print in an awfully dated, even for the day, printers where my apprenticeship centred on operating the Monotype keyboard and caster. Dreadful place it was, refusing to update: 'this is the way printing is done my boy' mentality. Small wonder it didn't last the course (not that many printers have now). Whilst they had two (relatively) modern Heidelberg 10x15 platens and a Cropper for very short runs, they had a massive stick flyer Wharfedale demy. Lethal thing it was with a massive exposed flywheel, although cordoned off by the time I'd started. Thankfully, though I produced a few jobs on the Heidelbergs when the need arose, I never touched the Wharfedale. Hated it. But I remember it being run by my older colleagues. That massive bed sliding back and forth with the machine making a distinctive 'gerrrrrrrr, gerrrrrrrr' as it made each impression, followed by the 'clack' of the stick flyers returning for the next sheet. This video brought back those memories.

[@arthurjohnson264]

We have a Dawson and Sons small demy folio 15x20 stick flyer and yes it is working. This is at Gulgong Pioneers Museum.

[@bruceanderton1518]

Built in Otley, which is in YORKSHIRE!

[@willianarguello4678]

la imprenta es sagrada, en ella se imprime la palabra, la verdad.

[@thomasjoyce1452]

I love this video a good craftman however back in the sixties l use to print the blue forme first then make ready the yellow before washing up to enable better viewing of the image

[@bent2419]

Was any of these presses sold to the european continent? I have only seen the Kônig stopcylinder from 1815 from Germany (1.000 print/hour). A equal stopcylinder was produced in Copenhagen from 1850 (Eickhof)

[@BrianMundyWTC]

I worked on number of these machines in the 1960s and 1970s.

[@toresverrestrand]

I worked on one in the 60s