[GreenKeys] SMECC NEEDS PADS OF TELEGRAM FORMS FOR DISPLAY WU AND RCA Both!...

[Richard Knoppow]

    My memory of telegrams is that the forms were a sort of tanish 
yellow. Very old memory.
    While wire telegraph work is being discussed rather than radio the 
"other" radio service, MacKay seems not to have been mentioned. MacKay 
was associated with Postal Telegraph and later W.U.

On 11/25/2016 5:44 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
>
> 25 or more years ago I was in contact with a fellow in the Morse Telegraph
> Club who had made reproductions of Western Union and Postal Telegraph
> message blanks.  But these were from wire telegraph days and the paper
> was lined since the messages were mostly copied by hand.  I don't imagine
> he is still living.
>
> What are somewhat easy to find are W.U. blanks used by customers to write
> their telegrams before handing them over the counter to the W.U. clerk.
> I imagine it's harder to find the W.U. forms used for gumming tape down to
> the form to produce the telegram to be delivered to the customer.  I
> wonder how many forms we would have to order to get a printing company to
> make some.  As I recall they are a rather odd size, and a color of paper
> that you don't ordinarily see.  W.U. also made use of salmon-colored paper
> with no printing on it for messages that the customer would not see.
> Such as telegrams received by telephone, or those used internally in the
> company.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, Studio8H wrote:
>
>> A pad of WU forms and a tape roll center will be on their way to you
>> in a day or so.
>> In the spirit of Greenkeys, and the Holidays.
>> Dan Beach
>> KD4WLI
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