A new addition to the St Ippolyts Telex Workshop

[M1ECY]

Thanks to Henning for telling me about this machine that became available in North London.

I collected the machine Wednesday evening, and here it is sneaking into what should be the dining room


A Creed 444 complete with plinth, built in control unit, and correct copy holder

Obviously this machine must appear on I-Telex - will commence power up operations shortly

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[JKde]

Hello,

can you add some photos from the inside please? The front buttons look like a Lo133!?!

[M1ECY]

Certainly, will take some this evening.

The Lo133 is very similar to the 444 - both were developed at the same time

[DF3OE]

The Creed 444 is the British Lo133. Both Creed and SEL belonged to the ITT company back then and
the British and German branch developed a machine based on the same design but produced
by each branch themself.

[M1ECY]

A few more pictures

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[M1ECY]

30+ years of hibernation have not been kind.

Machine powers up, and it has has a run around with the oil can.

No local copy mode at present - transmitter and keyboard all working, but it looks like no action on the receive end.

Rather annoying buzzer as well - think there will be a lot of dirty relay and switch contacts.

[M1ECY]

Aha!

The Creed 444 is identified as:

299709 ANTOSH G

Found a sticky lever in the transmitter that was stopping the machine state from changing between receive and send

[M1ECY]

Adding a few shots of the Line Terminal Unit (or FSG)

This is hidden in the stand base.

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[M1ECY]

And a few more

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[DF3OE]

Amazing. This all is "stored " in a Lo133 inside the normal machine.