1969 Hermes 3000 platen knob

I found a bar of aluminium in the garden about 10 years ago.

The Young Master is learning to use a centre-lathe at school.

Fingers crossed...

Letterpress, revisited

An follow-up to Letterpress article back in July.

Paper by Graham at The Exotic Paper Company (a.k.a. ellipoo)
Print by Peter at Lyme Bay Press

Hermes 3000 1969 - Achilles

Last typewriter - video

From this morning's BBC News 24
20 November 2012

Last typewriter

A typewriter, which its makers say is the last to be built in the UK, has been produced at a north Wales factory.

Manufacturer Brother, which says it has made 5.9 million typewriters since its factory in Wrexham opened in 1985, has donated the last machine to London's Science Museum.

The museum said the piece represented the end of a technology which had been "important to so many lives".

Edward Bryan, a worker at the factory since 1989, made the last typewriter.

"If people ever ask me, I can always say now, as a strange question, that I've made the last typewriter in the UK," he told BBC Breakfast's Colin Paterson.

He said he had previously "tried and succeeded to make one with my eyes closed".

Read more on the BBC News website... 

I know that some overseas readers aren't able to access the BBC News domestic website so I'll upload a video to this page shortly.