Hm, y'got me, then.

Maybe they had a big stock of them left over from a canceled project, so
decreed that the engineer had to design them in so they'd get used up.

That sort of thing does happen. . .

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Uncle Peter wrote:

Hello Roy

These fairly modern devices, with 211-xx style flange mounts. Although
they were marked with Motorola Communications inhouse numbers,
they appear to have been part of the general Motorola RF transistor
family, with complimentary NPN equivalents.

pete