[Milsurplus] [ARC5] [T-368_BC-610] Re: SCR-299/399/499 Typewriter

[Meir WF2U]

I have an Underwood mill with a brass USN property tag on it. I researched
the mill serial number on a typewriter collectors' website, and the
serial number comes up as manufactured in 1939. I use it quite frequently to
copy code (which is my favorite operating mode) and it resides on the
operating table in my US Navy themed section of my radio room where my Navy
receivers and transmitters are set up.
I have another caps only Underwood (I haven't dated it but looks like it's a
later model than my Navy mill) with a wide carriage which has no military
tags on it at all; this may be a civilian "Post Office" mill. For the lack
of another standard carriage mill it's on the operating table of my Royal
Canadian Navy transmitters and receivers collection. 

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC

-----Original Message-----
From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of D. Platt
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:34 PM
To: Ken Gordon
Cc: arc5 at mailman.qth.net; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] [T-368_BC-610] Re: SCR-299/399/499 Typewriter

The all-caps mill is also known as a Post Office typewriter and can 
sometimes be found under that name.  The two that I accumulated (and 
donated to museum ships) were Underwoods and were exactly the same as 
can be seen in SCR-399 setups.  There is a smaller version all-caps unit 
that the Navy and Maritime Service used.   The John Brown (Liberty Ship) 
has two of them in the radio room.

Just a thought...............

Jeep - K3HVG

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