Creed & Company was a British telecommunications company founded by Frederick George Creed which was an important pioneer in the field of teleprinter machines. ^[1] It was merged into the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) in 1928.

History [ edit ]

The company was founded by Frederick George Creed and Danish telegraph engineer Harald Bille, and was first incorporated in 1912 as "Creed, Bille & Company Limited". After Bille's death in a railway accident in 1916, his name was dropped from the company's title and it became simply Creed & Company.

The Company spent most of World War I producing high-quality instruments, manufacturing facilities for which were very limited at that time in the UK. Among the items produced were amplifiers, spark-gap transmitters , aircraft compasses, high-voltage generators, bomb release apparatus, and fuses for artillery shells and bombs .

In 1924 Creed entered the teleprinter field with their Model 1P, which was soon superseded by the improved Model 2P. In 1925 Creed acquired the patents for Donald Murray's Murray code , a rationalised Baudot code, and it was used for their new Model 3 Tape Teleprinter of 1927. This machine printed received messages directly onto gummed paper tape at a rate of 65 words per minute and was the first combined start-stop transmitter-receiver teleprinter from Creed to enter mass production.

Some of the key models were:

• Creed model 6S (punched paper tape reader)
• Creed model 7 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1931)
• Creed model 7B (50 baud page printing teleprinter)
• Creed model 7E (page printing teleprinter with overlap cam and range finder)
• Creed model 7/TR (non-printing teleprinter reperforator)
• Creed model 54 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1954)
• Creed model 75 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1958)
• Creed model 85 (printing reperforator introduced in 1948)
• Creed model 86 (printing reperforator using 7/8" wide tape)
• Creed model 444 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1966 - GPO type 15)

In July 1928, Creed & Company were merged into ITT.

During World War II Creed Company manufactured some of the British Typex machines, cipher devices similar to the German Enigma machine .

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External links [ edit ]

• Creed and Company Limited. The First 50 years
• History of Nova Scotia Creed and Company Limited

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