[GreenKeys] Another 2B follows me home

[Pete Lancashire]

Don't know why but it just looked smaller then the only other table I
have which has been in storage for a good 2 maybe three years. So
nothing special then.



On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> That table looks to me like an ordinary Model 15 table.
>
> Western Union had their own operating tables, most of them fairly large
> because they held the gumming desk used to stick the printer tape on to
> telegram forms, and also other stuff that was needed to operate a circuit.
> I guess there were some smaller tables used in customers' offices, and
> in fact we know of a very compact arrangement where the copyholder also
> served as the gumming desk.
>
> Also I believe in that ancient day the table would have been wood, or
> metal made with angle iron legs, or perhaps tubing legs.  I've seen pictures
> of a small table for a 2B that had tubing legs and was on casters, so it
> could be rolled around in the back room of a telegraph
> office.  For angle iron construction see a Model 12 table.  Spoze you
> measure that table and compare the measurements with a Model 15 table.
>
>
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