Adorning the front page of The Canberra Times this day in 1964 was a photograph exhibiting the 40-foot long and 25-foot high Goss press, with Mr N Rangeley, installation engineer, in the foreground.
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Fifty-seven years ago, The Canberra Times received a "new face", but still keeping in line with the essential character of the paper.
The issue of the newly-faced paper would be printed on a newly-installed high-speed rotary press at Fyshwick. There would be other changes to the paper as well.
With Canberra's expansion, more copies of The Canberra Times and faster production was needed. The Fyshwick press, a Goss Headliner, would deliver papers at the rate of 55,000 copies per hour.
To house the printing press, a new building had been erected in Pirie Street, Fyshwick, the location where the iconic building still stands today.
Alongside the 125-ton Goss press, space had been reserved to install another four-unit press with the city's expansion called for it. Canberra's rapid and continuous growth had been the guiding factor in the planning.
The aim was (and still is) to give Canberra residents a newspaper worthy of the expanding national capital. The Editorial and Advertising Department of the paper were to remain in Morty Street, Braddon.