[GreenKeys] model 14 and 2B questions

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my  WU 2bs in that photo I floated out on to  greenkeys  of  the 3 of 
them... have the   slick green covered by the    wrinkle  green... trouble is the 
wrinkle green is popping off a bit   on some... HA!  maybe  they forgot to  
get all the oil off!
 
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In a message dated 11/2/2016 12:56:23 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:

Well of  course that one has a W.U. nameplate, so it would be a 2B.

Here's  another way to tell.  If the machine has red and black cords.
W.U.  used the red cord for the keyboard and the black cord for  the
printer.  U.S. military, Bell System, and everybody else used  red
cord for printer and black for the keyboard.

So it seems likely  the machine in the 1946 picture is in fact the
one that connects to the  W.U. office and was furnished by W.U.

W.U. has used several paint  schemes over the years.  Early 1900s they
had light and dark olive  green.  I've wondered if they bought WW-I
army surplus paint, being  the penny-pinchers they were.  The Teletype
equipment of the same  period was often gloss black.  After WW-II W.U.
used a gray-green  wrinkle similar to that used by Teletype and the
CAA/FAA, but I believe  slightly greener.  Krylon has an olive green
spray can of non-wrinkle  paint that is a good match to the later W.U.
gray-green.

W.U.  furnished their offices with cans of paint, and when the personnel
ran out  of things to do they would often repaint all the equipment.
>From what I've  seen of it this green paint was much more bluish, or
maybe it fades to  bluish.


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