[Milsurplus] Need identification of two artifacts

[Mike Morrow]

>> I need to identify two artifacts which I believe are Collins radio units.
>> Picturesare in folder:
>> http://www.w5jv.com/For_Sale_or_Trade/Collins/
>> One is called a "dial up plate"

> The Collins control panel has been identified as the C Control Console
> for the TCS series of radios.

Your panel-box marked 314M-1 is the early Collins commercial model number
for the navy type-23270 and -23270-A "Remote Control Unit" (not sure what
a "C Control Console" would be!) for the TCS-series.  

The other panel with the telephone-style rotary dial looks a lot like the
one found in the center section of the large US Navy TCB-series of Collins
ten-channel auto-tune transmitters (500 pounds, but only about 100 watts!).
It isn't one, exactly, but perhaps it's some kind of variant for remote
control of a Collins transmitter similar to the TCB.  (There was a short
article on the TCB in a 1996 Electric Radio.)  IN any event, that unit is
of course not associated with the TCS-series.

Mike / KK5F