> On Jan 14, 2026, at 3:04 PM, David Wade via cctalk <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
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> On 14/01/2026 18:56, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>> 
>> ...By "telegrams" did you mean Wheatstone tape, i.e., two rows to encode 
>> Morse?  I've only seen that in ads for McElroy/Creed punched paper Morse 
>> code machines (e.g, in the 1954 ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook).
> In the UK telegrams and I assume from this listing:-
> 
> https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192535576139
> 
> were printed on gummed tape that was stuck onto a card for delivery.....

I forgot about that stuff.  The Wheatstone tape I mentioned is this: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstone_system

        paul

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