[GreenKeys] Wood tables

[Jim Haynes]

I don't know.  I have a wood Model 19 table here.  It was originally a
nice mahogany furniture finish but presumably some W.E. shop painted over
it with a gray-green enamel that is peeling.

My guess is that back in the 1930s or so when wood office furniture
was in vogue they also wanted Teletype gear to look like office furniture.
The most intriguing part of all this is the metal covers that were painted
with an imitation wood grain.  The 1938 edition of Principles of 
Electricity shows a Model 19 with that treatment.

Model 26 machines all had wooden tables - late 1930s.

The only other wooden table I remember seeing was a Model 15 in an FAA
station circa 1956 (before they replaced all the old stuff with Model 28s)

I remember a National cash register from the 1930s that had the 
hand-painted wood grain finish on the metal parts.  And I once had a tape
reel cover from a Model 14 with wood grain finish that had been painted
over with something more modern.

Jim W6JVE

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