CREED

The company was founded by Frederick George Creed and Danish telegraph engineer Harald Bille, and was first incorporated in 1912 as "Creed, Bille & Company Limited". After Bille's death in a railway accident in 1916, his name was dropped from the company's title and it became simply Creed & Company.

In 1924 Creed entered the teleprinter field with their Model 1P, which was soon superseded by the improved Model 2P. In 1925 Creed acquired the patents for Donald Murray's Murray code, a rationalised Baudot code and it was used for their new Model 3 Tape Teleprinter of 1927. This machine printed received messages directly onto gummed paper tape at a rate of 65 words per minute and was the first combined start-stop transmitter-receiver teleprinter from Creed to enter mass production.

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Creed Teleprinter No. 2P
The 2P was the second teleprinter designed by Creed and Company, and was introduced in 1925. It was a much more attractive looking printer than the original 1P model, but suffered from the same problem of lacking an adjustment mechanism, meaning that skill and knowledge were needed to keep it in working order. The 2P remained in use in some newspaper offices well into the 1960s.

Creed Teleprinter No. 3X
The teleprinter used a development of Donald Murray's five-unit code but incorporated 'start-stop' signals as part of each letter code. This meant that the sending and receiving machines always remained in synchronism without needing highly accurate speed controls on the motors. Equipped with a standard typewriter keyboard, the teleprinter could be used by anyone with minimal training and the messages were automatically printed in clear type. The Creed teleprinter 3X was introduced in 1927 for the General Post Office and printed onto narrow gummed paper tape for pasting on to telegram forms. Until 1949, this was the standard machine used on the British Post Office Inland Telegraph Service for point-to-point and manual switching circuits.