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Origins and details - NP 2

  • ashvina
  • on 8 Jan 14 (05:13)
  • Updated 8 Jan 14 (05:32)

Hello everyone,

Needed : details and origins; how this machine operates etc.

NP 2 - Used to print newspapers.

Discernable detail on machines :

MING HING ENGINEERING FACTORY
S-12 SAI YEUNG CHOI ST. KOWLOON HONG KONG
(Mandarin Script untranslated at present)

Type H222
Nr. 584478

Thank you!

Ashvina
The Royal Press, Malaysia
theroyalpress.my

image: Newspaper 2as.png

Newspaper 2as.png

image: Label Ming HIng .png

Label Ming HIng .png

image: Label Type .png

Label Type .png

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Unfortunately, there is almost no information online about Chinese presses. Once a friend told me about seeing a Chinese copy of an English Wharfedale cylinder letterpress in Tibet.
This looks like a handfed press with very simple design.

I would guess that Ming Hing imported this press and put a plate bearing their name on it. The smaller plate, with type and number indication on it, make me think that is probably a German press. I would search the web or German trademark registers for IVO. Apart from that, I believe that an British company would use No. and certainly not Nr. (Nummer in German).

If it is really a German-made press it would certainly be pre-WW II, and from the early design, possibly pre-WW I.
The underfed design suggets a stop-cylinder press. I think in general European presses evolved along single-revolution design (Heidelbergs, Alberts etc.) where American cylinders were two-revolution (Miehles, Kellys).

@parallel_imp, @thomas gravemaker - Thanks, you guys.
- Ashvina