[CW] Vibroplex J-36s

[Bruce Wright]

Dear Fellow List Members...

It seems to me that I recall reading somewhere--perhaps within the pages of 
the FB publication, "The Vail Correspondent"--the number of J-36 units 
(either actual or estimated) produced by the several manufacturers...IIRC, 
Lionel was far and away the most prolific producer with Vibroplex and 
another one or two far behind...I'm sorry, I cannot get to my Vail 
Correspondent copies at the moment.

Bruce
WC5CW


>From: mikea <mikea at mikea.ath.cx>
>To: cw at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [CW] Vibroplex J-36s
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:56:58 -0600
>
>On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:23:30PM -0500, Rich Dailey, N8UX. wrote:
> > At 02:48 PM 01/17/06, wa4jqs wrote:
> > >yep mine is  12-31-1944 serial number 285
> > >73 Tony wa4jqs
> > >
> > >At 10:14 PM 1/16/2006 -0500, Rich Dailey, N8UX. wrote:
> > >>Yup.  Mine is serial # 159, date of 11-17-1939.  Tony will have to 
>chime in
> >
> > Both our keys are the small type plates.
> > I'm cross-posting this to the morsecode reflector, btw.
> >
> > So am I correct to assume that from 11-39 to 1-45
> > Vibroplex produced only 126 J-36s? That doesn't seem like much
> > production for military use during WW2. According to Bill
> > Holly's book, the reason Lionel was supposedly given the designs
> > to produce a J-36 was because military demand for the Vibroplex
> > exploded just prior to WW2.
> >
> > I think I've seen more Lionels (or more correctly, J-36 type keys
> > without nameplates on them) than the Vibroplex.  I've never
> > yet seen a large type nameplate Vibroplex, except for in the
> > books.
>
>I guess I need to go look at the plate on my Vibroplex J-36, which
>I _think_ dates from sometime before 1946. I don't remember the S/N
>at all. More later, probably tonight.
>
>--
>Mike Andrews, W5EGO
>mikea at mikea.ath.cx
>Tired old sysadmin
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