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Issue 3 (July 1966) under the new editorship of [[David Williams]] reverted to the unfolded page layout. At the time the Society membership had reached 300 and David's brief from Secretary Bert Cleaver was to produce four magazines and eight other newsletters per year (the latter were discontinued five years later after 37 issues in December '71).<ref name=SVR40/> Further issues of SVR News were produced in the same format every 3 to 5 months ending with issue 10 in October 1968.<ref name=SVR50/>
By the end of 1968 membership had risen to around 3,000 and hand duplication was becoming unworkable. Issue 11 (January 1969) was the first to be commercially printed and bound in the A5 booklet format which is still used today.<ref name=SVR40/> It consisted of 24 pages including the outside covers<ref group="note">Since mid-2015 the front and rear covers have been included in the page numbering, thus the first inside pages of a 64 page issue will have the list of officials on page 2 and the contents and editorial beginning on page 3, with the back cover being page 64. Before that time page numbering excluded the covers, with the contents and editorial being on page 1. All numbers of pages quoted are consistent with the present method.</ref> and was wholly in black and white. Issue 14 (Autumn 1969) was the last published by the Society with issue 15 (Winter 1969-70) the first published by the [[Guarantee Company]]. Simple colour bands appeared on the front cover from issue 26 (Winter 1972-73), while a one-off colour photograph was used on the cover of issue 28 (Summer 1973). Colour photos on the cover became a regular feature from issue 34 (Winter 1974-75), although they did not appear in the magazine itself until the centrefold of issue 110 (Spring 1994). Other colour photos began to appear increasingly from issue 115 (Summer 1995), although contemporary black and white photos were still in use as late as SVR News 160 (Winter 2007-08). Since that time pictures have been wholly colour apart from historical photographs.
The number of pages also increased over time, while varying from issue to issue depending on the amount of content available. By the end of the 1970s issues were typically 48 pages, rising to 60 pages by the end of the 1980s. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw typical issues of 76 pages, with the greatest number of pages being 88 in issues 128 (Autumn 1998), 136 (Summer 2001) and 137 (Autumn 2001). After that time the number of pages began to decrease, partly to save postage costs. Since mid-2015 the 'standard' has been 64 pages with occasional issues of 72 pages.
