[GreenKeys] model 14 and 2B questions

[Jim Haynes]

Well of course that one has a W.U. nameplate, so it would be a 2B.

Here's another way to tell.  If the machine has red and black cords.
W.U. used the red cord for the keyboard and the black cord for the
printer.  U.S. military, Bell System, and everybody else used red
cord for printer and black for the keyboard.

So it seems likely the machine in the 1946 picture is in fact the
one that connects to the W.U. office and was furnished by W.U.

W.U. has used several paint schemes over the years.  Early 1900s they
had light and dark olive green.  I've wondered if they bought WW-I
army surplus paint, being the penny-pinchers they were.  The Teletype
equipment of the same period was often gloss black.  After WW-II W.U.
used a gray-green wrinkle similar to that used by Teletype and the
CAA/FAA, but I believe slightly greener.  Krylon has an olive green
spray can of non-wrinkle paint that is a good match to the later W.U.
gray-green.

W.U. furnished their offices with cans of paint, and when the personnel
ran out of things to do they would often repaint all the equipment.
>From what I've seen of it this green paint was much more bluish, or
maybe it fades to bluish.