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21st May 2020, 9:09 pm | #21 | |
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Re: Converting a 1950s Ericsson phone for "normal" working
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21st May 2020, 10:07 pm | #22 | ||
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Re: Converting a 1950s Ericsson phone for "normal" working
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Looks like one from one of the batches that I bought and shipped back to set the party line up and have a few spares. Attached is photo of one of the batches. In those days there were 4NZ$ to the £ compared with the 2NZ$ to the £ now. Average price of a good ivory Tele 332 in good 'nick' was less than £100 inc postage back to UK. Plus an exBT guy appeared in NZ selling and pushed the asking prices right up on 'Trade Me' - the NZ equivalent of eBay. Problem with Trade Me is that you have to live in NZ or Australia to register and bid. Useful that I administer CNet in NZ so am in contact with folk there! |
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24th May 2020, 12:57 pm | #23 |
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Re: Converting a 1950s Ericsson phone for "normal" working
I use one of these as our hall telephone, but it's an Ericsson PAX instrument I acquired from the BBC Kirk o' Shotts transmitter PAX system - far less exotic! Note that on the photo I have a lettered dial plate which is incorrect - I don't believe these telephones were ever sanctioned as a GPO instrument. I have since reverted to the original numeral-only dial plate.
The innards are just a 332 chassis and any conversion is identical.
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24th May 2020, 4:41 pm | #24 | |
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