[GreenKeys] 1939 Commercial RTTY?

[dmm at lemur.com]

I got a query from a writer who must have seen something about
teletypes on my website.  He asked, first, if it would be historically
accurate to have a shipping company in 1939 use a Teletype;
the answer to that is clearly yes.  He then asks if, specifically,
they might receive things such as manifests from ships (presumably
at sea) via (radio)teletype?  Technically this was possible, of course, 
but I don't know if it was then (1939) standard practice.  Was it? 

Regards,
David M.
===
Dr. David M. MacMillan  -  dmm at lemur.com

   The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
       - Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915); Aldo Leopold

www.CircuitousRoot.com   *  www.LemurType.com   *  www.Lemur.com