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Postby 88V8 » June 21st, 2021, 10:29 am
Perhaps thirty years ago, my next-door neighbour who was a keen engineer and retired from the National Physical Laboratory and had an interest in old precision machinery and knew t'management at the Science Museum... somehow managed to acquire a decommissioned banknote printing press from the Royal Mint.
As I recall, there were two of these things, the Science Museum took one and he the other to save it from scrapping.
Like the Stamp Duty press, it weighed ... a lot... and he had nowhere indoors to put it but he had recently disposed of his 2 litre Lagonda that had been mouldering for many years in his front yard awaiting attention - he had a lot of things awaiting attention - and so using the space, he built a substantial shed behind the yard's pair of double gates.
Some years later, having afaik done nothing with the press other than put it in working order and pat it now and then, he was visited by staff of the Mint who had got wind of this unofficial arrangement and were rather concerned as to what he might be doing with it.
He passed nine years ago after we had moved away. Clearing his house which was stuffed to the gunnels with artifacts must have been a challenge, especially rehoming this press.
V8
