[GreenKeys] Historic journalism and teleprinters

[Jim Haynes]

Well, except that there is clearly a wheel or pulley at the bottom
end, which suggests a moving belt or cable.


On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, Normand Marks wrote:

> Hi
> It looks like a cable rack with cable coming down on both sides of the
> center of the rack from the ceiling trough.
>
> Norm
> WB7WEQ
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: GreenKeys [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Sam
> Hallas
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 3:07 PM
> To: GreenKeys
> Subject: [GreenKeys] Historic journalism and teleprinters
>
> A friend sent me the attached photo which is stated as being of the Wire
> Room in the Bradford (UK) offices of the Telegraph and Argus local
> newspaper. Taken about 1968.
>
> Note the bank of receive only machines on the right and what looks like
> a wire-photo machine being loaded in the distance.
>
> Anybody know what the curious ladder-like device is in the centre? Is it
> some sort of document carrier conveyor?
>
> Sam
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