R. P. Bannerman and Son

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1. Overview

? - 1934? London.

Made electroformed matrices from 1909 to "about 1934" for the Oxford University Press. Also made pivotal casters for the OUP. (See: Rice's Matrix Making at the Oxford University Press. (1982), Part 2. .)

Also references in { Wallis, L. W. "Legros and Grant: The Typographical Connection." Journal of the Printing Historical Society. No. 28 (1999): 5-39. } identifying Bannerman as a competitor of Grant, Legros & Co. Ltd. and suggesting that Bannerman was selling a "proprietary" sorts caster.)

Wallis (p. 33) notes that J. Haddon & Co. sued Bannerman for "alleged infringement of a registered design of type." { Wallis, L. W. "Legros and Grant: The Typographical Connection." Journal of the Printing Historical Society. No. 28 (1999): 5-39. }, citing "Alleged Infringement of Design." The British and Colonial Printer and Stationer . (15 August 1912)


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