RA Collection: People and Organisations
Printing firm founded as the Lanston Monotype Machine Company by Tolbert Lanston in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1887. The company set up a branch in London in 1897 under the name Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd, generally known as the Monotype Corporation. In 1899 a new factory was built in Salfords near Redhill in Surrey where it was located for over a century.