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

[Studio8H]

For what it’s worth, the WU forms for the sender to write on (6” x 8-1/4”) were used in our small business in the mid-1950s interchangeably both to send, and to paste up received tape.
It was easier than keeping two sets of forms, and the messages all stayed in-house.
These are the forms that I had a small supply of, now exhausted.

WU used slightly smaller forms (5-3/4” x 8”) for mailing and couriering the received messages.

I suspect that printing up a new supply for Greenkeyers might run afoul of Trademark laws, since WU is still a going concern.

When someone comes up with a gummed tape (preferably in WU yellow), he/she’ll be a hero to many of us!

Dan Beach
KD4WLI


On Nov 25, 2016, at 8:44 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> 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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