[Milsurplus] TBS question

[William Donzelli]

> I was doing to say there might have been a factor of choice involved
> in assigning nomenclature, but on thinking of RAT or RAX or DAG,
> i'd say, it doesn't seem so. It seems they just didn't  get around to using
> CRAP or DOG.

There are a few interesting codes. I once saw a Navy oil can, to be used 
with the TBW generator, called CAN-18003. CAN being Sangamo, the people 
that made the thing.

The Navy wised up - I don't think CASE is used.

> There is only one other Navy example somewhat similar to the TBS, 
> that i know of, and that's in GE's "Men and Volts at War" ( 1946 ? ).
> It mentions that GE built the TDE, which was mainly intended for
> Destroyer Escorts. ( DE class vessels. ) I dunno if that claim of its
> main purpose is true.

Never saw a GE TDE. Most are Westinghouse, a few are Farnsworth.

That is kind of a neat book.

William Donzelli
aw288@osfn.org