[GreenKeys] got western union handbook for teletype maintainers june12 19...

[Doug Alderdice]

Seems like I have seen some, somewhere, but can't begin to say 
where/when that was and I don't think I saved them on my machine.  It 
was possibly in the Shorpy pix and/or a YouTube video of an old Bell 
System (or whatever) film.

A now retired coworker once told me about the little drug store/general 
store his family had in a small town between Buffalo and Rochester when 
he was a kid and they had the Western Union contract for the town. 
There was a little tape printer installed and he told me how the WU rep 
came and showed them how to paste up the telegrams, using one of these 
tools.

D.


On 4/21/2015 11:56 AM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> thanks  Doug!   Mystery solved!  anyone  got a  scan of photo of it in
> action  we  can pair  with it ?  ed
>  > sharpe archivist for smecc
> In a message dated 4/21/2015 5:47:18 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> ka2wft at arrl.net writes:
>
>     The "glass thing" in the middle of your photo is not a chemical
>     rectifier but a pasting tool for telegrams.  The tank holds water which
>     soaks a small sponge at the end a gummed tape from a printer is drawn
>     through the guides as the tape is pasted to a telegram blank.  It
>     allows
>     someone to paste up a telegram from printed tape very quickly.
>
>     Doug A.
>
>
>
>     On 4/21/2015 3:02 AM, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:
>      > got western union handbook for teletype maintainers June 12 1944
>     any one
>      > scanned?
>      > this  stuff from mod 19  and earlier including lots of model   12
>      > info..   tons of table wiring configs.....it is like a huge bell
>      > practice flip book thing.if  scanned  I  will just  file it and  use
>      > when needed ( hate reading of screens) all these western uniion
>      > stickers  are  neat and the glass thing...a  chemical rectifier?  ed
>      > sharpe archivist for smecc