Nice Telephone set D MK V with Morse key I picked up D^D PMG made 1942 dated with single headphone no handset though
Spider. Just having a single earpiece and no handset provides a usefully equipped telephone for use in an Observation Post. Morse signals but no voice transmissions provides increase level of security in a forward position; no loud voices shouting down the telephone to be overheard. Main advantage being Morse signals much quicker than speech. Well acquainted with the old-style sword-like bayonet. First issued to me in mid-September 1939, with an 'old soldier' looking over my shoulder asking this 18-year-old if it still had blood stains from the Great War! Joe Brown.
The sets also came with a bakerlite telephone handset............just have to find one to complete it.
Joe, Sorry to be a pain. I can understand the operational benefit of voice free comms but can you explain how Morse can be quicker than voice comms? This from the Son of a post WW2 Signaller, National Service, who spent all his time at The War Office on teleprinters. Mike
Mike Just remember our first lecture on the Morse Code. 'It is clearly very much faster than speech, composed of just two symbols and based on the English language; the shortest letters in Morse symbols were the letters used more frequently than others: e - t - i - s - a. However, the maximum signals used for alphabetic letters are four whilst figures uniformly consist of five symbols.' With regards, Joe
