GPO 713 Pendant phone and 'under desk'dial. - Page 2 - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

G6Tanuki · 7th Apr 2020, 2:57 pm

I've seen a few of those phones - invariably grey - in control-rooms, switch-rooms, remote transmitter-sites etc; there was a version (I forget the number) which had an electromechanical autodialer unit (in obligatory GPO blue-grey plastic) located somewhere conveniently inaccessible, configured so when you took the phone off-hook a call was automatically pulse-dialed to a pre-defined number.

JohnBHanson · 7th Apr 2020, 3:23 pm

Yes - the one number dialer was used in AA boxes to dial the AA

7th Apr 2020, 2:57 pm	#21
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 13,996	Re: GPO 713 Pendant phone and 'under desk'dial. I've seen a few of those phones - invariably grey - in control-rooms, switch-rooms, remote transmitter-sites etc; there was a version (I forget the number) which had an electromechanical autodialer unit (in obligatory GPO blue-grey plastic) located somewhere conveniently inaccessible, configured so when you took the phone off-hook a call was automatically pulse-dialed to a pre-defined number.

7th Apr 2020, 3:23 pm	#22
JohnBHanson Heptode Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Worthing, Sussex, UK. Posts: 661	Re: GPO 713 Pendant phone and 'under desk'dial. Yes - the one number dialer was used in AA boxes to dial the AA