Creed Telegraph Equipment Collection

This collection includes Creed & Company Ltd books & technical documentation from the period 1910–70. The collection was gifted to Bletchley Park Trust by Nortel Networks Historical Archive in 2001 for educational purposes and for the public benefit.

Creed & Company Ltd manufactured some of the British Typex machines, cipher devices similar to the German Enigma machine. Creed was a British company  first incorporated in 1912 as Creed, Bille & Company Ltd. The company began manufacturing high-speed automated Morse Code equipment and later teleprinter equipment. In 1928, Creed & Company Ltd became part of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT), parts of which eventually found their way into telecommunications company Nortel Networks.

The extensive collection of equipment at Bletchley Park ranges from the earliest days of the company to the 1980s and includes historic automatic Morse printer equipment, transmitters and relays, teleprinter equipment, photograph albums, company cash books & instruction booklets on telegraphy & communications.