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These small two-revolution presses were the work-horses of printers of the period (especially in the USA), they were fast, light running and could be changed over to different paper sizes relatively smartly.
'Pony' size presses were usually the smallest in the range. Unaware of the exact origin of the term though.
Walter Scott, was born 1844 in Ayr, Scotland. He studied theoretical and applied mechanics there before emigrating in 1869 to the United States, settling in Chicago where he found employment in several printing offices. In 1872, whilst foreman at the 'Inter Ocean', he designed a successful newspaper press and proposed other improvements. In 1884 he founded his own business in Plainfield, New Jersey, building a range of presses. Prominent amongst them were web presses which printed, cut and folded from a reel. He was reputed to have taken out over one hundred U.S. patents.

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