.....So who has the motor?

As most of us here know, behind every successful marriage there's a good shed!...And, it was in one in Southend Essex that languished the teleprinter for a German 'Lorenz' encoding machine..........

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36401663

...........Now who's got a motor like that?...someone here?

Edited By JasonB on 29/05/2016 07:53:45

Probably been fitted to an old Singer sewing machine somewhere.

It's a fantastic bit of luck though even without the motor.

Edited By Sandgrounder on 29/05/2016 08:51:11

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I was just reading that article on the BBC site. Copied the link and was about to post it here. Then noticed this thread.

But they are also asking if anyone can build them a motor.!!!!! - Jason can fabricate one and Les can wind it for them.

Seems I would be very good at offering other peoples services without them knowing. - But would be good Kudos for the ME fraternity and the site.

Nick

JS will bodge one up better than me, probably got half a dozen knocking about in a dark corner of his workshop.

It says it is the partner machine to the one from Norway on load from the Norwegian Army. The numbers on the machine tell the tale. How has sat hidden away all these years, how did it get there? Some of the WW11 tales get stranger and stranger. I can just imagine that as an office closed some chap says I'll take this as a momento.

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Probably a model engineer intending to remove parts to make into something else upon his production weary war surplus lathe he has bought from the WD for 10 shillings and sixpence.

Nick

Some of the WW11 tales get stranger and stranger.

Some of it may never be documented either

One old chap I knew said that after the war in the desert was won they took a bunch of used heavy equipment and guns over the Suez at night and out into the Sinai desert. It was handed over to the Jewish guys and then the Brits returned over the Suez canal the next night.

And this happened in 1943.

Stereo Photo of a Lorenz TelePrinter, here: http://www.nonstopsystems.com/radio/hellschreiber-3D-photos.htm#T36

MichaelG.

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P.S. for the info. of those who may be searching under their benches ... TelePrinter Motors are typically mains synchronous 3000 rpm, 1/20hp ... and in the 1950s were a fairly popular choice for "updating" the drive on Equatorial Telescope Mounts [e.g. the Grubb, at the Godlee Observatory]

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 29/05/2016 16:51:10

On the Morning program on Radio 4 this morning one listener text in saying in his Headmasters office years ago there was a complete unit on a shelf, less the half an hour later another text arrived from an retired teacher saying previous text was correct as he had seen it in the Headmasters office as well.

Martin P

Maybe the owner of it was a spy.

I expect the motor is powering someone's Super-Adept lathe...

Not mine John, my motor on the Adept is IBM. Ian S C