This is a fascinating place...
Elderslie House - The stately home of Herberton's founder, John Newell
Notice that the accelerator pedal is in the middle!
Printing at the Herberton Times
RONEO - A spirit duplicator is a printing method invented in 1923 by Wilhelm Ritzerfeld that was commonly used for much of the rest of the 20th century. The term "spirit duplicator" refers to the alcohols that were a major component of the solvents used as "inks" in these machines. The device coexisted alongside the mimeograph.
Spirit duplicators were used mainly by schools, churches, clubs, and other small organizations, such as in the production of fanzines, because of the limited number of copies one could make from an original, along with the low cost (and corresponding low quality) of copying.
GESTETNER - A mimeograph machine (sometimes called a stencil duplicator) is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. The process is called mimeography, and a copy made by the process is a mimeograph.
Mimeographs, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, were common technologies for printing small quantities of a document, as in office work, classroom materials, and church bulletins. Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing into the 1970s, photocopying gradually displaced mimeographs, spirit duplicators, and hectographs.
To my readers, especially those of the Generation X (1965-1980), Millennials (1981-1996), Generation Z (1997-2012), Generation Alpha (2013-2025), would you believe that as a printer I used ALL the above technologies equipment and machines (except the Linotype which was very specialized)!
Jeez... I never realized that I am so ANCIENT !!!