Creed & Company

Frederick George Creed (1871–1957), a Scottish-Canadian inventor, developed a keyboard-operated tape perforator for telegraphy around 1900 that the British Post Office put into service. The firm he founded, Creed & Company of Croydon, came to dominate British teleprinter equipment: transmitters, receivers, reperforators and tape gear for postal, press and military telegraphy. In 1928 it was bought by America's ITT but kept the name.

Its best-known product was the Creed Model 7 (1931), a rugged page teleprinter that became standard on British telex networks and clattered in newspaper offices well into the 1970s — the European counterpart to America's Teletype Corporation. The business faded as electronic terminals and screens replaced the mechanical machines.