A worker using a Linotype machine in 1937
THE Bucks Free Press was printed in hot metal fashion until the early 1970s, using the Victorian invention of the Linotype machine, which enabled type to be set mechanically.
Lines of type were set by casting hot metal into lines of brass matrix moulds.
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