Help with Model Please 8)

Looks like a “New Style”, which would be a “10x15 New Style C&P platen printing press”. I am basing that off what little of the flywheel I can see **appearing** to have straight spokes and the fountain.

Certainly seems to be a C&P New Series press. Looks kinda big for a 10x15, though. Measure the inside dimensions of the chase. Also there should be a serial number stamped into the upper left corner of the bed (behind the chase that’s locked into the press in the photo). You can look up the year of manufacture with that.

New rollers can be obtained fairly reasonably. NA Graphics is where I usually get mine. Never had to buy a belt for mine as I run them with a treadle, but understand that belts are readily obtained; They are not specific to the press just measure the length you need and buy one that size. I’ve seen both flat belts and v-belts used. Leather and rubber.

Yeah, judging by the size of the Reddington Counter, I’d guess it’s at least a 12 x 18 but the angle makes it hard to judge. Being able to treadle this machine will be dependent upon whether it’s main shaft is a crankshaft or straight shaft. Chandler & Price made the New Series* machines both ways. The drive pulley looks to be designed for a leather belt. You can measure the width of the pulley face to find out how wide the belt needs to be. Probably 2.5 to 3 inches. Is there a motor at the back of the press to run a belt to? If there is, you can run a cord around the drive pulley on the press and the pulley on the motor to find out how long the belt needs to be. There are people online who sell leather belts for this kind of usage. Try looking for “line shaft belting”.

* Lots of people call these New Style, but Chandler & Price called them New Series in their catalogues. The New Style seems to have come from C&P calling the previous design their Gordon Old Style press. The Old Style part of the name, however, comes from the fact that Messers Chandler and Price had licensed George P. Gordon’s first platen press patent rather than his second patent. It was therefore Gordon’s “Old Style” design. Both the Chandler & Price Gordon Old Style and the Chandler & Price New Series presses used the same basic mechanism based on Gordon’s first patent. The New Series just simplified and strengthened the castings.
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Michael Hurley
Titivilus Press
Memphis, TN