{L&M Circa 1936}, pp. 33, 36-37 shows and describes the All-Purpose Linotype. It is not clear to me that there was actually a separately engineered English version of the American All-Purpose-Linotype, but there might have been.
Here is the All-Purpose Linotype as presented in the Linotype & Machinery book The Linotype: Its Mechanical Details and their Adjustments, circa 1936. {L&M Circa 1936}, p. 33.
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{L&M Circa 1936} The Linotype: Its Mechanical Details and their Adjustments. London: Linotype and Machinery Limited, [n.d., circa 1936]
IMPORTANT NOTE on the copyright status of: The Linotype: Its Mechanical Details and their Adjustment , printing code "2128 M 1/EY". This book is undated, but probably dates to around 1936. (The latest two machines it mentions are the English Model 50, introduced in 1936, and the A-P-L, introduced in America by 1935. As of 2013, if this volume was published before 1938, then as an anonymous corporate work it is in the public domain in England. However, as this volume was in copyright in England on Jan. 1, 1996, due to the implementation of the Uruguay Round of GATT it acquired a US copyright which will, under current law, expire 95 years from its date of publication. The U.S. does not recognize a "rule of the shorter term." It is my assertion, however, that the brief excerpts from this book used in these web pages for the critical analysis of this historical product line constitute "Fair Use" under U.S. copyright law. Please be advised, therefore, that these excerpts and images may not be in the public domain in your country and not licensed under the same Creative Commons license as the pages on which they appear.
In the US, Legros and Grant's Typographical Printing Surfaces (1916) is in the public domain due to the expiration of all possible copyright. Its scan by me and its reprint here remain in the public domain in any country in which the original is in the public domain. In England and other countries where copyright for works published in 1916 depends on the date of the death of the author, its copyright status is unclear. It is remotely possible that we are still with 75 years of the date of death of John Cameron Grant (which is unknown).
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