[Milsurplus] More Wilcox Electric Info on 96C and CS390(a bit long)

[Skip Frolik]

Not sure many here are really interested in these units
but the recent discussion got me up off the lazy's to
crawl back into the storage part of the site and check
out just what manuals were with the CS390 I have there.
Found several original manuals from Wilcox including one
on the 96C and it's components plus the original on the
CS390. I'll type the opening remarks from the CS390 manual.
By the way the date on this manual is 1943, Wilcox Electric
Company, 1400 Chestnut Street, Kansas City Missouri.
			"Control Equipment CS390"
				General Description
	The Wilcox Electric Company Type CS390 Control
	is a standard enclosed relay rack apparatus assembly
	designed specifically for the remote control of the
	following equipment:

		10 Wilcox Electric Company Type 96C Transmitting channels.

		1 or 2 Wilcox Electric Company Type 50A Modulators.

		2 Wilcox Electric Company Type 36A Rectifiers.

		1 Wilcox Electric Company Type 113A Receiver Bay, containing
		  8 Type CW3 or Type F3 receivers or a combination of both types.

				"Mechanical Description"
	The CS390 Control Equipment consists of a number of standard relay rack
	mounting apparatus assembles housed in an enclosed cabinet. A typewriter
	well and desk front are furnished with each cabinet and these are so
designated
	as to be attached thereto. A message rack, suitably divided as to incoming
and
	outgoing traffic, is provided for attachment to the side of the cabinet.
	The arrangement of equipment in the rack from top to bottom is as follows:

		1 108A Loud Speaker

		1 Hammarlund Super-Pro Tunable Superheterodyne Receiver

		1 63A1 Dual Channel Amplifier

		1 109A Control Panel

		1 M57D1 Amplifier

		1 90A2 Oscillator

		1 Hammarlund Super-Pro Receiver Power Supply

Anyway that's pretty much the configuration of this one here in addition to
a pair of the CW3 receivers down to and including the "Royal" Typewriter
.... Hi.
Looked like someone just picked up and walked off from the unit. Still
message
sheets in the racks. This Wilcox gear definitely meets the term we've all
come
to love and admire that being a "True Boatanchor". Makes me
"Verklempt"(sp.).
Skip
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