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15th Dec 2015, 11:42 pm | #1 |
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Russian desk telephone
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Can anyone help me with some info on a Russian 1928 telephone I purchased recently. This is all I know at the moment, after a few searches. Any info would be great and thanks in advance. Cheers acoustic Last edited by AC/HL; 16th Dec 2015 at 12:44 am. Reason: Thread split |
16th Dec 2015, 8:41 pm | #2 |
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Re: Russian desk telephone
If no one beats me to it, I'll have a go tonight at completing a translation of the label, as there are some unfamiliar words I'll need to look up.
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16th Dec 2015, 8:58 pm | #3 |
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Re: Russian desk telephone
OK, here's my crack at it:
Electrotechnical Trust Glorious Factory [toka - ?] Leningrad* Telephone Factory "Red/Beautiful Dawn/Sunset" year 1928. Unfortunately, Krasnaya can either mean beautiful or red, and Zarya can mean beginning, dawn or sunset - and there is insufficient context to narrow it down. *of course Leningrad is now known as Saint Petersberg.
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16th Dec 2015, 10:06 pm | #4 |
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Re: Russian desk telephone
Wow that great didn't expect that cheers m8
I have been looking about on the net and found out it might be a CB system desk telephone device |
16th Dec 2015, 11:56 pm | #5 |
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Re: Russian desk telephone
My bet is 'red dawn' - calling something 'red sunset' in 1920s USSR would have had worrying (for the person doing the naming) counter-revolutionary connotations!
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17th Dec 2015, 12:19 am | #6 |
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Yes, I'll go with "Red Dawn", which sounds about right for Soviet ideology.
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17th Dec 2015, 12:37 pm | #7 |
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Re: Russian desk telephone
Hello.
A bit of information here http://telhistory.ru/en/start_watchi...yy_apparat577/ and http://telhistory.ru/en/start_watchi...y_apparat3076/ The factory originally belonged to Ericsson :- "Ericsson's Russian story spans 130 years. The company started delivering telephone equipment to Russia in November 1881 and set up production in St. Petersburg in 1897. In 1904, Ericsson built Europe's then-largest telephone exchange, with a 60,000-line capacity, on Moscow's Milyutinsky Pereulok. During Soviet times, however, the telephone exchange and St. Petersburg factory were taken over by the state, with the factory renamed Krasnaya Zarya, or "Red Dawn." Nonetheless, the firm continued to work here. In the 1930s, it constructed a telephone network in Moscow that operated well into the 1990s. It also provided the world's biggest telex station for the Moscow Olympic Games in 1980. Yours, Richard Last edited by Mr Moose; 17th Dec 2015 at 12:47 pm. |