MOTAT printing oral history project interview with Robert Muirhead
Maker and role
Robert Muirhead, Interviewee
Megan Hutching, Interviewer
Production date
24 Jan 2012
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Object detail
Accession number
12-0672
Description
Oral history interview with Robert Muirhead containing biographical information and covering his apprenticeship as a printer in Glasgow. Includes information about various types of printing machines, process of typesetting, different printing processes, work in Accra, Ghana; Switzerland; Lagos, Nigeria; Jamaica, for Whitcoulls and as independent printer in New Zealand.
Physical description
1 sound disc (ca. 133 minutes) : digital
Credit line
Robert Muirhead et al. 24 Jan 2012. MOTAT printing oral history project interview with Robert Muirhead, 12-0672. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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Subject: all levels
Interviews
Muirhead, Robert, 1936-
Anecdotes
Printing
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New Zealand
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Blue-printing
Photographic reproduction of plans, drawings, etc
Printing machinery and supplies
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Employees, Training of
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Printing presses
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Platen presses
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Offset printing
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Letterpress printing
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Type and type founding
Anecdotes
Printing ink
Sound recording and reproducing
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