Hand-operated ticket-printing machine

Description

Waterlow & Sons was set up as a family business in 1810. They printed stamps and banknotes, but also manufactured printing machines. This machine was designed to print railway tickets and the same model was shown in the London Exhibiton of 1862. As the exhibiton catalogue said: "They are constructed with a fast and loose rigger, to work from a shaft, or may be driven by hand with perfect ease printing, perforating, numbering consecutively, either at one or both ends of the tickets at one operation, at the rate of 8,000 to 10,000 per hour." These machines were used in railways in England, Australia, and other British colonies of the time.

Object Name(s): printing machines

Object Category: PRINTING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT

Creator: Waterlow & Sons Ltd.

Production date: 1952

Linear Dimensions Depth: 88

Credit Line: National Print Museum, Dublin