[Milsurplus] wwII walkey talteys

[WA5CAB@cs.com]

Group,

George, you're correct.  I can't put my hands on it right now but somewhere=20
around here I have either an original or a copy of an article written by the=
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person or one of the people who developed the BC-611 at Galvin.  It clearly=20
states that the term Handie-Talkie (TM) was coined early in the process whic=
h=20
would put the genesis circa 1940/41.  When I next stumble across the article=
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I'll be more specific.  I think it's in one of my original TM 11-235's which=
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for some reason isn't up on the shelf where it should be.  I'm pretty sure=20
that the article itself is circa 1946.

And don't forget that there was a third variant, Horsie-Talkie, AKA SCR-511.=
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:-)


The names Handie-Talkie=E2=84=A2 and Walkie-Talkie=E2=84=A2 as spelled are b=
oth
trademarks of the Galvin Manufacturing Company, now masquerading as
Motorola, and I believe are currently still registered. Use of y instead
of ie by a competitor was tested in court, and Motorola won.   Handy or
Walky is OK but the combinations Handy-( or Handey- or Walky- or
Walkey-)Talky (or Talkie or Talkey) was ruled to violate the trademark.=20
Somewhere I have read the story of the genesis and litigation of these
names, perhaps in a Motorola historical retrospective, and my fading
memory puts the first Walkie-Talkie trademark name on the BC-611, but I
could easily be wrong.  One of you collectors with the WW2 radio magazine
articles about military radios in the war take a look and see what they
were called in the publicity stories, or in the Motorola (Galvin)
advertisements.  In any event, they predated CB by 20 years or so.


73
Robert Downs
Houston
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