[GreenKeys] Ebay 250919065416 Model "100" machines

Jim Haynes jhhaynes at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 27 12:09:40 EDT 2011


Well I sure hope somebody picks them up.  They aren't as good as Model 
15s, and they aren't really rare, but they will be rare if they keep
getting scrapped.

In the 1930s the always penny-pinching Western Union decided to have
some machines made for themselves, trying to save money.  So these are
made out of typewriter parts, something Teletype Corp. abandoned after
the Model 12.  Like the 12 and the 26 they have a moving platen, which
complicates paper feeding.

I've heard of model numbers as high as 105, so maybe they made five
batches of them, with improvements between each run.




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