[RTTY] Code Permutation Tape Printer - what?

[Ben Antanaitis - WB2RHM]

Jim,

I believe that this is an old Western Union Telegram message strip printer.

When you sent a WU telegram, the person at the other end (the 
Addressee) would get a piece of WU Telegram paper with the message 
glued onto it in lines formed of strips of words.  I think what we 
are looking at is the machine that would print the tape with the 
words printed, to be cut and pasted onto the yellow Telegram form.

If this were a TeleType device, it would say TeleType on the motor.

73,
Ben - WB2RHM