[GreenKeys] Here's an odd device - Teletype and Morse?

[Jim Cooper]

On 16 Dec 2018 at 15:12, Jim Haynes wrote:

> I'm going to offer a guess.  Something Western
> Union would take to a sports event like a
> baseball game to report the game back to the
> telegraph office.  Pre-dating Model 31, so an
> earlier KSR printer would be too heavy for the
> operator to lug to the press box.  But the TTY
> keyboard would allow faster transmission than
> a Morse key, and would allow the telegraph
> office to copy transmissions on a printer. The
> Morse sounder is there so the telegraph office
> can communicate back to the operator, who would
> know Morse.  And the Morse key is to give him a
> way to communicate with the office until the
> printer connection is established. 
 
> This is only a guess.  If you could inspect it
> you might find the Western Union name on various
> pieces of it. 

That's a very good speculation !!   I worked for WU 
out of the Phila. area office back in 1962 and they 
still had the Morse order wire between all the area 
offices and the main area office ... but were getting 
into the teletype stuff too ... as well as the Teledeltos 
paper fax machines! 

At that time, telegrams were still coming in on the 
Model 14 strip printers and being glued to the WU 
telegram forms ...