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31st Aug 2021, 7:04 am | #1 |
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Wooden telephone
picked this up yesterday at Huntington radio rally can anyone id it please
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31st Aug 2021, 8:59 am | #2 |
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Re: Wooden telephone
I've seen an instrument like this used on a railway branch line. It was used on a winch controlled incline down to a dock in NE England so the guy at the bottom could communicate with the winch house at the top.
Powered by wet LeClanche cells and probably installed about WW2 Ed |
31st Aug 2021, 9:17 am | #3 |
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Re: Wooden telephone
What is that silvery disc which looks like a later addition to the front door?
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31st Aug 2021, 10:19 am | #4 |
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Re: Wooden telephone
Could it be the original microphone ( 2 connections to it via the hinges)
If so the handset is a later addition. Ian |
31st Aug 2021, 10:33 am | #5 |
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Re: Wooden telephone
Looks very similar the GEC K series phones an example linked
https://www.britishtelephones.com/gec/40.htm https://www.britishtelephones.com/gec/gectlist.htm Cheers Mike T
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31st Aug 2021, 10:10 pm | #6 |
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Re: Wooden telephone
A nice find. You just need a second one, and a butler to answer it.
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1st Sep 2021, 7:04 am | #7 |
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Re: Wooden telephone
cheers folks ,yes original microphone on the door i guess i need to find a more original ear piece instead off the hand set
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1st Sep 2021, 12:21 pm | #8 |
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Re: Wooden telephone
I seem to recall having the remains of a telephone like this about 40 years ago, had the Sterling Telephone mark on it.
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1st Sep 2021, 2:21 pm | #9 |
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Re: Wooden telephone
When I worked for BR in 1950/60 we had plenty of those types of phones in regular use and dated back to GNR of 1900 time. Yes as Ed says, work via wet LeClanche cells. Almost all signal boxes had a wooden cabinet outside at ground level, which contain a bank of wet LeClanche cells.
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1st Sep 2021, 9:45 pm | #10 |
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Re: Wooden telephone
What it should have is known as a "watch receiver" (presumably because of the slight similarity in appearance to a pocket watch). A search for this online only seems to bring up more modern equivalents, but it would have a metal body with a suspension ring and a bakelite cover.
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