[Milsurplus] TCS for marine use

[Hubert Miller]

I thought Collins was marketing this 18M  ( TCH ) to any buyer - at 
least before WW2 arrived here. Isn't there advertising material
extant that shows this marketing to foresters, oil exploration, and such 
kinds?
Years back - someone from So. Africa wrote me about the 18M  in service 
there - or was it a variant? My memory of that note is sketchy,
but i recall he had photos of an 18M ( or variant ) with somewhat 
different appearance - "may" have been an early 18M style? Wish he
would write again - but i don't know if he reads this group. Probably 
his emails reside on one of the dead computers around here that
needs to have the harddrive copied.
The list i refer to - was an official U.S. publication, not some postwar 
author - "may" have listed the TCS in it but it certainly identified the
18M as 18M in British service and not identified as TCH.
Oddly, the TCH manuals i have all seem to be commercial Collins product 
manuals, not Navy.
-Hue

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From: "WA5CAB--- via Milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>

Sorry, but the Brits couldn't have bought them from Collins sans USN 
approval.  As I indicated earlier, the first five TCS models had Collins 
tags, not USN nameplates.

As to the "Ships Emergency", the classification on SHIPS 242A was only 
CONFIDENTIAL (today's SECRET).  So it could well have been 
disinformation.

But there is no valid reason to doubt the Lend Lease comment.  I happen 
to know, for example, that machine tools bought on Lend Lease contracts 
were not marked "Lend Lease".  And a TCS transmitter has turned up in 
Australia that was almost certainly bought on a Lend Lease contract.
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