[ARC5] An interesting marking on ARA set sn 4839

[Leslie Smith]

  Hello David:
  The context (for other readers) - see below, about the stamp
  SC-4019-A.  
  To continue:
  OK I'll guess at this one.  My guess is based on the contract number
  and the acceptance date.
  (But - be warned about the "acceptance" date I give.)
  I have seen sets from this contact number with a yellow "accepted"
  stamp on the rear panel dated Feb '42, as I stated in a previous
  posting.    This is 8 weeks after Pearl Harbour.  I can only imagine
  the frenetic energy in USA at this time - "it's war!  Get moving!"

When USA entered WWI a fellow called Franklin Delano Roosevelt was
Assistant Secretary to the Navy.  (As I recall).
Mr. Daniels was the Secretary to the Navy (as I recall.  It's been a
long time since I read this.)

The navy urgently needed some buildings.  Roosevelt "ordered" these.  
Construction began after a shaking of hands at the newly inspected
construction site.
After the buildings were complete, FDR issued the contract for their
construction.  
(My source:  The one-volume biography of FDR by (as I recall) Tom
Watson.)

I figure the same sort of process took place at the beginning of WWII. 
"Get the job done.   Forget the formality."  So the "Army" stamped the
set, ordered by the Navy, as "accepted".  That's my guess, and if my
guess is correct there will be a batch of these sets, "accepted" by the
army in Feb '42.


73 de Les Smith
   vk2bcu at operamail.com

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017, at 11:50, David Stinson wrote:
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> David Stinson noted "the marking" on this set was interesting.
> 
> The photo of interest shows the name-plate and adjacent I see the stamp
> SC - 4019 - A.
> 
> Can you say what these characters mean?
> (My guess:  Signal Corps, inspector #4019 (or approval certificate 4019)
> and "A" accepted)
> 
> Why is this stamping unusual?
> --------------------------
> 
> It's an Army Signal Corps inspection/acceptance stamp.
> While I have seen both on the same set one other time-
> an AN/ARC-5 transmitter- that was a "JAN" (Joint Army Navy)
> set and therefore such "dual" inspection stamping would not
> be too surprising on the earliest runs of AN/ARC-5.
> However, the ARA was supposed to be exclusively a NAVY set,
> so an Army inspection stamp is curious.
> 
> 73 Dave S.
> 
> 
>