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

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Yes... Jim the ones that    accept the gummed  strips  is what we are  
looking  for.
 
I guess  if  I had  one to shoot  from I could  make  some page of and it 
is amazing what  colors of paper can  be  special ordered. Well  for  demo 
purposes  that   would be  the way to go  so 'artifacts' are not used up... 
but would  be  good to have 'real' pad  from each company  for a   display.   
what is fun too are all the special  issue  forms  for all the  holidays 
birthdays etc.. We  fell heir to a collection  of  telegrams  song back  way 
back  but in there wee all the  special  forms  too! There were all used  
forms.
 
The  fellow that  had  collected them as a maintenance   person for WU  and 
we have  class photos  from maintenance  classes, photos of his  lash up or 
amateur  radio gear but the  neatest   thing was this maintenance book that 
had  samples  of  print good and bad  when machines needed fixing and also  
all  the tests and the trouble reports too. This  thing needs to be 
scanned...  pretty fragile and would we will have to be really careful with it.
 
Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/25/2016 6:44:44 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:


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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