Well, not quite...
There I was in the stationers, getting this seasons Portsmouth score-sheets copied, and I started wondering how they did this in years gone by. Back in 1948 (when my club started) how did they mass produce score-sheets? Or did they restrict the number of scored rounds, perhaps to those mythical beasts "Club Target Days"? Then I started reminiscing (with the young lady doing the copying) about those rolling things with a big handle that printed everything in purple and smelled divine. Or the things where you "cut a stencil" on the typewriter, or "Litho".
And what other processes are influenced by the ease of producing paper. Affiliation, I would guess, but how was that done 60 years ago? Is the Rule Book so much bigger now because we no longer need to cram everything on two sides of foolscap folded four times?
There I was in the stationers, getting this seasons Portsmouth score-sheets copied, and I started wondering how they did this in years gone by. Back in 1948 (when my club started) how did they mass produce score-sheets? Or did they restrict the number of scored rounds, perhaps to those mythical beasts "Club Target Days"? Then I started reminiscing (with the young lady doing the copying) about those rolling things with a big handle that printed everything in purple and smelled divine. Or the things where you "cut a stencil" on the typewriter, or "Litho".
And what other processes are influenced by the ease of producing paper. Affiliation, I would guess, but how was that done 60 years ago? Is the Rule Book so much bigger now because we no longer need to cram everything on two sides of foolscap folded four times?