This allowed duplicate copies of a document to be typed.
The face copy would be sent off to whoever and the carbon copy retained for filling. I gather that you could have maybe 3 or 4 carbon copies. The back copies not so good.
Then there were stencils, they allowed more copies to be made but I never saw them used but Ann did.
Banda machines were used to print off material lists in the Drawing Office.
A draughtsman would write the material list and hand it to us apprentice to re- write for the Banda Machine.
We wrote on a blank material sheet which had a sort of glossy back and this laid on a blue wax type sheet.
We copied the information onto the glossy backed sheet and the blue wax type stuff then stuck to the back of the top sheet.
A finished sheet would be taken to the materials handling office and copies run off for the works etc.
In Palmers the Banda machine was in Wilf Woodwards office (he was and ex RAF chap.) I cannot remember at what point the material list had the cutting information entered on it.
As all apprentice draughtsman had as Squad lads. to ? Perfect their handwriting before being allowed to make the material lists we had to put a blank sheet of drawing paper on our drawing boards and the draw lines across them 1/4” apart using a Tee Square. The drawing boards were big AO size.
Then ever line had to be filled in with the letters of the alphabet both in large and small case
Numbers were done as well.
The Chief Draughtsman would come around and inspect all the Squad lads work each week.
Even to this day 65 years later I still print as I did at Palmers, no handwriting.
The drawing of section of structural steelwork drawn on AO boards on printed sheets with company logos etc. were on a tracing paper type sheet to allow printing in the print room over the yard. The equipment used was old but newer machines came in before I left in 1966. Still remember Blueprints and changing the electrodes or whatever they were called in the print machine.
There was a huge camera about 4-5 foot square and a foot deep with a bellows for the lens about 3 foot below it, really old gear.
When I moved down to work in Harrogate in 1968/69 it was all change modern equipment.
Allan Campbell
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