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stereotype foundry to be erected as a portion of the plant. In 1851 the single machine in use could only produce 350 copies per hour, but fifty years afterwards, Leng had four elaborate machines in operation, each capable of throwing off 20,000 copies per hour. He was the first to attempt illustrations in a daily paper, and when the primitive pantographic method was superseded by zincography, he founded a zincographic and photographic studio as part of the office equipment. The difficulty of obtaining an adequate paper supply was overcome in 1893, when the
Donside paper mills were acquired by a private limited liability company of which Leng was the chairman.
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was issued daily. In June 1870, Leng was one of the first
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