△ Linotypes for setting Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu, Calcutta 1952. Linotype & Machinery’s manager in India at the time, Tom King, is seen here at the West Bengal Government Press with the Press’s superintendent A.K. Guha. The press had a battery of thirty-three machines by 1950s, nine of which were replaced by the latest models (Model 48SM) in 1952.

△ Photographs from the Lucknow Script Reform Conference 1954. J. Schemmel (right) with the governor of Uttar Pradesh K.M. Munshi and his wife, at the ‘technical exhibition’ organised by Schemmel.

△ Photographs from the Lucknow Script Reform Conference 1954. A demonstration of the Hindi teleprinter (in the background) at the conference.
Source: Indian Print & Paper, July 1954 (Collection of Vaibhav Singh)

△ Three Linotypes on the Ceylon Government Press stand at the Colombo Plan Exhibition, 1952. In attendance on the stand: Bernard de Silva, acting government printer, and Tom King, Linotype & Machinery Manager in India, Ceylon, and Burma.

△ Pictures of Times of India Press showing sections of the press rooms, 1953. Sections are equipped with Linotype & Machinery two-colour Letterpress Machines and Miehles. Top left: K.C. Raman, assistant production manager, and L. Warbrick, the works superintendent.

△ General impression of the fine machine room in the Bombay Municipal Printing Press, 1953. The equipment includes four Centurette presses .

△ Dr Syedna Taher Saifuddin, high priest of the Bohra community in Pakistan, sitting at the keyboard of a Model 48 Linotype, 1953. Unidentified man explaining the bilingual English-Urdu features of the keyboard layout while relatives and followers watch.

△ This Model 48 Linotype was formally installed in the Assam Government Press, Shillong, by the Hon Minister Rupnath Brahma. Standing by the Linotype are S. Ahmed, superintendent of the Press, Iswar Chandra Chaudhuri, and Satish Chandra Kakati, assistant directors of information and publicity of the Government of Assam.

△ The Government Central Press Bombay, 1954. The Press had sixteen Linotypes and thirty printing machines of various sizes in operation at this time. It employed 1200 people working in two shifts, managed by D.K. Pradhan, senior technical officer, with principal deputy superintendent B.S. Naik.