A Cossar Club has been launched to bring together ‘Friends of the 1907 Crieff Cossar’. The Club has a wealth of information about the machines and their inventor, and seeks to bring together people with knowledge of these machines and their history. For more information about the Club email 1907cossarclub@gmail.com The Scottish Printing Archival Trust […]
25 years of the National Printing Heritage Trust
January 24, 2015
The National Printing Heritage Trust was formed at a meeting 25 years ago today in Chester. Its main focus is preserving the machines, equipment and materials to promote understanding of how printing was done in the past. More recently the Trust has concetrated on securing items of significant printing machinery and equipment that were in […]
Cossar Tales from Australia
June 10, 2014
An article about Cossar presses in Australia and New Zealand has appeared in both the print and online versions of GXPress. As well as the history of the press there are recollections from printers who worked with the ‘Cossar Patent Flat Bed Web Newspaper Printing Machine’, and Peter Coleman lists an impressive number of newspaper […]
Talk on the Legacy of the Printing Press
August 30, 2013
Tim Honnor, who owned Piccolo Press in Nairn for 20 years is to give a talk at Nairn Book and Arts Festival on The Legacy of the Printing Press — ‘The most important invention since the wheel’. He will speak about the invention of printing, and show pictures and videos of a range of printing […]
Cossar Press — New Appeal Leaflet
August 30, 2013
The Crieff Cossar Press Project page on this website (The story of the Cossar Press) was updated with new information over the summer. The fundraising effort is still ongoing: the Scottish Printing Archival Trust has successfully raised approaching half the overall total (£15,000) needed to complete the project. Can you help us raise the rest? You […]
Pictures of the rebuild process
February 25, 2013
More pictures of the process of dismantling, moving and rebuilding the Crieff Cossar Press have now been added. The reconstructed press remains in store in Govan, awaiting the completion of phase 2, and removal to Edinburgh (phase 3).
New Type Cossar Press in action
January 23, 2013
The ‘Single-Width Users Group’ has a website for the New Zealand print community. It includes a ‘Way Back When’ section which includes videos of the ‘New Type’ Cossar Presses in action, as well as other videos illustrating the history of newspaper printing. B8 Cossar Press video B4 Cossar Press video
Crieff Cossar Press Phase 2
November 25, 2012
Phase 2 of the Crieff Cossar Project (rebuilding) is now underway near the home of its inventor — Tom Cossar of the Govan Press. In March 2012 the Cossar Press was removed from the premises of David Philips Printers in Comrie Street, Crieff in the same way it had been installed in 1907 — in […]
Online donation link
October 24, 2012
It is now possible to donate online to the Cossar Press project, through this link.
Cossar Appeal: Milestone Reached
September 5, 2012
SPRAT is delighted to announce that the National Printing Heritage Trust has made a generous grant towards the preservation of the Crieff Cossar Press. The NPHT is a national UK charity dedicated to preserving historic printing equipment machinery and archives and SPRAT is very grateful for their support. This donation means that the appeal has […]
SPRAT is grateful for support from The Watson Foundation