Introduced in 1913. Four-magazine mixer (1 & 2, 3 & 4).
I am aware of no explanation as to why such a high (and out-of-sequence) model number was assigned at this early date.
(There is no chance of confusing this with an American model. American Linotype model numbers ended at 36.)
By way of comparison, the first American four-magazine mixer was the American Model 9, but that was a most unusual machine which mixed all four magazines simultaneously. The first American four-magazine mixer in pairs was the American Model 29, a "Blue Streak" machine introduced 23 years after the English Model 65, in 1936. (Though to be fair, it allowed mixing in adjacent pairs, not fixed pairs, and in that sense was more like the English Model 6 of 1916.)
{L&M Circa 1936}, p. 16, describes the machine thus:
"The Model 65 has four magazines and two distributors. The magazines were arranged in pairs, and changed from one pair to the other pair by handles on the right of the magazines. The change from one magazine to the other was very simple, so that matrices from both magazines of either pair could be used in the same line.
Or, as they put it more succinctly later, "matrices from magazines 1 and 2 or 3 and 4 could be mixed." ( {L&M 1964}, p. 2.)
Here it is as shown in {L&M Circa 1936}, p. 15.
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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 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". 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.
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