Owner Taranaki Typesetters
Location Hawera South Taranaki, New Zealand
Status Unknown
20331 Is a English Manufactured Elektron and is the sister machine to one held in a Australian Museum.
It has a different magazine system to the American Elektrons Why Linotype made this machine and how it came to be in New Zealand is a bit of a Mystery, as it is not on the list of imported machines.
Obtained in 2000 (free) from Contact Labels. Believed to be a private Import through Australia Linotype. 20330 is in a Australian Museum.
Possibly lost in a fire in 2019:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/116248965/fire-rips-through-south-taranaki-business
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