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Wigan Observer's new Crabtree Spearhead mk3 web offset press 1965
Wigan Observer's new Crabtree Spearhead mk3 web offset press 1965
Photo: Colin Harlow
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Item #: 18729
Crabtree of Leeds was Britain's biggest printing press manufacture. The Wigan Observer's new press is being installed at Woods Street in 1965, the machine the first of it's type proved to be a success story winning many newspaper awards.

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