GPO TELEPRINTER No's 4 and 5


The Teleprinter No. 5A, obsolescent by 1933, was a keyboard transmitter with a counter and working to a Teleprinter No. 4A as a printer.

The Teleprinter No. 4A was a column machine printing from a typehead.

The two machines together comprised one installation.

 

 

 
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