Booklets relating to Typography used by Typesetter Derek Manton

The Manchester Guardian Limited was established in 1907 when C.P. Scott bought The Manchester Guardian from the estate of his cousin, Edward Taylor. In 1924, it bought The Manchester Evening News and became The Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited. The Manchester Guardian newspaper became known as The Guardian in 1959 and the company name subsequently changed to Guardian and Manchester Evening News Limited.

It became the Guardian Media Group in 1993. The Group is owned by Scott Trust Limited.

Linotype and Machinery Limited was formed as the result of a merger between the Linotype Company Limited, originally registered as a company in 1889, and the Machinery Trust Limited, registered in 1893.

The Linotype Company Limited initially imported American built machines from the Merganthaler Linotype Company. However, as demand grew it looked to producing the parts and making the machines in England initially at a converted mill on Hulme Street, Manchester from 1889 onwards.

The Machinery Trust Limited acted as agents either selling or leasing the composing machines to printers. The success of the companies continued and in order to meet the demand for the machines the two companies merged on the 11th August 1903. They also clarified their position with the American owners of the original patents as to which countries they could sell their machines. The new company occupied the premises of the Linotype Company in Broadheath, Altrincham.

By the time of the outbreak of the First World War, it was estimated that there were 30,000 linotype machines in operation across the world. Linotype and Machinery Company Limited had established branch offices in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt and Borneo, as well as having a head office in London, and sales offices in Cheltenham.

The National Graphical Association was a typographical union formed in 1963 when the Typographical Association and the London Typographical Society merged. In 1965 it took over the National Union of Press Telegraphists and the Association of Correctors of the Press. The late 1960s saw the NGA expand further, absorbing the National Society of Electrotypers and Stereotypers in 1967, and the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers in 1969.

The late 1970s and early 1980s saw the union expand again. In 1979 the National Union of Wallcoverings, Decorative and Allied Trades transferred its engagements to the National Graphical Association. In 1982 the NGA amalgamated with SLADE: the Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers, and became officially known as the National Graphical Association (1982).

The NGA had branches throughout England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Scotland was covered by a separate union, the Scottish Graphical Association, and later by the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT.

In 1991 the NGA became part of the Graphical, Paper and Media Union (GPMU) when it amalgamated with SOGAT. The GPMU itself would merge with AMICUS in 2004, and AMICUS itself became part of UNITE in 2007.

Stationer and paper manufacturer based in Manchester.

Makers and suppliers of both the American and English Intertype composing machine.