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Libraries have tried to retain as much printed material as they can. However, technical manuals were previously held only by the businesses that wanted them, usually as PDFs!
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“I thought you were meeting BarmyWaffle today?” says Franklin.
Both Franklin and Faraday are a little surprised when NutJob turns up at the PrintWorks for side project time.
“It’s complicated! He was in a rush, we had a thirty second chat and we’re going to meet properly next week.”
Bennie and Michael Scott, better known as Franklin and Faraday, run The Lancastrian. They’d like to retire soon, but they’re passionate about delivering the news. Franklin started work at the newspaper as a fifteen year old trainee journalist.
She travelled a lot, learnt all the languages in and around the Irish Sea, and has become extremely popular, and well respected. And knowledgeable!
An outgoing, bubbly lady, she has lots of friends.
Faraday is much more introverted, an electrical and mechanical engineer by trade, he has been able to maintain the twenty second century printing presses in working order much longer than the manufacturer’s guidelines. Nobody makes these printing presses any more.
Building on the engineering heritage of Wolfland, Faraday wants to build his own sustainable presses and he needs a bit of help. He’s almost fifty years older than NutJob, and in spite of that, the two of them get along incredibly well!
“Side project?” asks NutJob inquisitively, “where did this Wednesday Side Project idea come from?”
“It’s a long standing tradition you know,” says Faraday, “Franklin did some research on it a while back, and wrote up a Bite Size History report, it’s up on the Archive Wall somewhere.”
Along the wall down one side of the PrintWorks there’s a collection of framed articles. A little faded in places, but well
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