Monotype Corp Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Lanston Monotype Corp Ltd
- Lanston Monotype Machine Co
- Morison, Stanley A
- Agfa Monotype
- Monotype Imaging
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Redhill, Surrey, Surrey, South East, England
Sectors:
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Mechanical engineering
Printing machinery production
Notes:
Established as Lanston Monotype Corp Ltd in 1897 as a subsidiary of Lanston Monotype Machine Co of USA, makers of hot metal type setting machines. Also designed typefaces. The leading typographer Stanley A Morison, 1889-1967, was for long associated with the business as an adviser. 1936 floated on London Stock Exchange as Monotype Corp Ltd. 1990 acquired by Agfa of Germany to become Agfa Monotype. Subsequently Monotype Imaging. Continues
Publications:
- History of the Monotype Corporation by Boag, Andrew, & Christopher Burke (eds)
- Monotype Recorder. Fifty years of typecutting, 1900-1950 by Unknown
- One Hundreed Years of Type Making, 1897-1997. A series of essays covering the history of type making at Monotype in its first 100 years by Boag, Andrew, & Lawrence W Wallis (eds)
- Pioneer Days of the Monotype Composing Machine by Unknown
- Stanley Morison by Barker, Nicolas J
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Lanston Monotype Corp Ltd
- Lanston Monotype Machine Co
- Morison, Stanley A
- Agfa Monotype
- Monotype Imaging
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Redhill, Surrey, Surrey, South East, England
Sectors:
- Mechanical engineering Printing machinery production
Notes:
Established as Lanston Monotype Corp Ltd in 1897 as a subsidiary of Lanston Monotype Machine Co of USA, makers of hot metal type setting machines. Also designed typefaces. The leading typographer Stanley A Morison, 1889-1967, was for long associated with the business as an adviser. 1936 floated on London Stock Exchange as Monotype Corp Ltd. 1990 acquired by Agfa of Germany to become Agfa Monotype. Subsequently Monotype Imaging. ContinuesPublications:
- History of the Monotype Corporation by Boag, Andrew, & Christopher Burke (eds)
- Monotype Recorder. Fifty years of typecutting, 1900-1950 by Unknown
- One Hundreed Years of Type Making, 1897-1997. A series of essays covering the history of type making at Monotype in its first 100 years by Boag, Andrew, & Lawrence W Wallis (eds)
- Pioneer Days of the Monotype Composing Machine by Unknown
- Stanley Morison by Barker, Nicolas J