[Milsurplus] TCS for marine use

[Bill Carns]

You guys are getting the TCS and the TCH missed up ??

 

The TCH (Originally the 18M) was introduced before the war and sold publically first.

 

The TCS was for the military originally and not sold publically until after the war. 

 

 

From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hubert Miller
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 2:32 AM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] TCS for marine use

 

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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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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