{L&M 1964}, p. 2, indicates that the English Model 50 / 50 S.M. mixers, indended to accomodate display work, had wider magazines than the straight-matter English Model 48 / 48 S.M. machines. It also indicates that the "Super Range" model, in turn, had not just wide but "extra-wide" magazines. Here are the magazine quipments from the side magazine versions of each, side by side. Unfortunately, I don't have an image of a "Super Range" machine straight-on, so I had to do a set of comparisons from roughly the same angle (top row) with frontal views of the two that I did have.
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I'm not yet sure when the "Super Range" model was introduced. It was a derivative of the English Linotype Model 50 ( {L&M 1964}, p. 2), which was introduced in 1936, and it in turn was replaced by the English Model 72, which was a part of the "Seventy Series" introduced in 1959 (but I'm not sure exactly when the Model 72 was introduced).
{L&M 1952}, p. xxi, indicates that the machine could use both 72 channel and 90 channel magazines: "Its main magazine equipment can comprise four extra-wide 72-channel magazines for the accomodation of alrge display upper-case and lower-case characters up to 36-point. When fewer than four extra-wide magazines are required, the balance of the equipment can be made up of regular 90-channel magazines." This description does not, however, indicate whether the 72 and 90 channel magazine equipment would be permanently assigned locations or whether an equivalent of the American 72/90 feature was supported.
Neither do I know whether it was made only in side magazine versions. There is much that I do not yet understand about this machine.
Here is the English Super Range" Linotype as shown in Mechanism and Operation of Modern Linotypes {L&M 1952}, p. xxi.
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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]
{L&M 1952} Mechanism and Operation of Modern Linotypes. London: Linotype and Machinery Limited, 1952. (Printed Jan. 17, 1952)
{L&M 1964} The Linotype Manual. London: Linotype and Machinery Limited, 1964.
IMPORTANT NOTE on the copyright status of: The Linotype: Its Mechanical Details and their Adjustment , printing code "2128 M 1/EY" and Mechanism and Operation of Modern Linotypes. The first of these books 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." The second of these books was published Jan. 17, 1952 and it is in copyright both in England and the US. It is my assertion, however, that the brief excerpts from these 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.
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