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[Pete Lancashire]

Many time props were not period correct



On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 8:05 AM, drlegendre <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Duncan
>
> Sure, 1950-2000 is no problem. But how could it also have spent some 11
> years on the MASH set during that period if it was in continuous use?
>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 7 Apr 2018, Duncan Brown wrote:
>>
>> The M26 was in production from 1937-1949, so it was a "WWII era" machine,
>>> even if not used by the military.
>>>
>>
>> Are you sure?  I thought manufacture was discontinued in 1939, tho they
>> kept making spare parts until about '49 and the machines in Bell System
>> service remained in service until about then.  The official story is that
>> the 26 was supposed to be a light-duty lower-cost machine for TWX service.
>> The role that the 32/33 line was intended to play later.  But they found
>> the expense of making and maintaining two different models, 15 and 26,
>> was great enough to wipe out the savings the 26 was supposed to produce.
>>
>> The 26s were allowed to remain in service until the early 1950s.  At that
>> time the Bell companies were persuaded to release the machines to hams
>> rather than smashing them up.  A flood of them became available at that
>> time, so the 26 was perhaps the predominant ham TTY machine for several
>> years.  15s were harder to come by because they were still in commercial
>> and military use (including outside the U.S.)  The previous  ham machines
>> were 12s, which were much less desirable than the 26s, so most of them
>> got scrapped.
>>
>> I've heard a few scattered reports of M26s being used in the military,
>> but certainly not mainstream when the military could get all the 15s
>> they wanted, and later 28s.  Perhaps some 26s were tried for shipboard
>> use - 15s were a problem on shipboard because of that heavy type basket
>> getting slung around as the ship pitched and rolled.  Which is why the
>> Navy had first call on all the 28s that were manufactured for several
>> years.
>>
>>
>>
>
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