[CW] Speed-X 114-520 feet

[Richard Knoppow]

    This is the page I found. My key is similar to the middle 
illustration of the Model 501. But the key in the photo has four 
feet (you can see a rear foot peeking out at the back corner). 
Mine has three feet and no indication that there ever four. It 
also does not have the label or any scars from their ever having 
been one. What is left of the maker's name on the box label 
starts Spee  with the rest torn off. Perhaps Speed-X Radio, can't 
tell.
     Mine also has the same arrangement of knob and paddle as the 
key labeled Model 511 but that has a conventional bridge while 
mine had the reversed bridge. So perhaps its not a Les Logan key 
but a Steward (is that the right spelling?) Johnson key. If the 
complete box label had said Speed-X Radio it would be definite.
     BTW, the illustration of the 511 shows the dot contact 
mounted backward, you couldn't adjust the weight for high speeds 
the way it is.
     Another BTW, does anyone out there in CW land have a Speed-X 
box of this period? What color is it and, if it has a complete 
label I would like to see a photo of it
     Much ado about nothing as Shakespeare said.

On 4/14/2018 3:03 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> One of those links that were posted has the history of this key, 
> yours was the first version, Electro-Bug,  Steward Johnson, I 
> believe, then to ...


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Richard Knoppow
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