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Pentode
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Hertfordshire, UK.
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I picked up this phone and bell box the other day, it's nothing too exciting, but I thought it might be interesting.
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Hexode
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Flintshire, UK.
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It is actually a 710 style rather than the later 746 style phone. Part of the Plessey range of phones for private systems or export - the 'main' station of a manager/secretary setup giving similar arrangements to the GPO's Plan 105/107. See https://britishtelephones.com/ericsson/n1906.htm for more about it.
Telephone Rentals bought most of their range of telephones and PAXes from Ericssons/Plessey and stuck their own labels on them. Ian J ex Plessey Communication Systems |
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Octode
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Saltburn-East, Cleveland, UK.
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Hi, if the fourth (far most right hand) button is marked 'Trans Rlse' this particular model of phone and its associated extension was intended for use only with a PAX and was produced by Ericsson/Plessey and distributed by Telephone Rentals and (possibly) other private rental firms.
I had a brochure somewhere with details of a number of these systems, unfortunately I have mislaid it ![]() Regards Andrew |
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Octode
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Manchester, UK.
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I am intrigued to know what "Trans Rise" means.
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Triode
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Colchester, Essex, UK.
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Oh, I think it's exciting.
Although from what I can make out, it's not actually GPO equipment and, as such not actually a 710, it seems to have the all-figured dial surround correct for the 706 and associated variants. From my limited experience, I would suggest these are not that common as most phones were upgraded to clear dials with numbered backing ring and a plain outer surround. My green 706F was later upgraded to a 706F as above but would presumably have had a dial surround fairly similar to yours when it left the factory the first time around. Yours was never upgraded, so it's a reasonably interesting example of an all-figured dial surround. From what I can gather there is a kind of all-figured dial surround that was issued later for the 747 and associated varieties, but the numbers are much larger. Practical, and not unattractive, but not contemporary. |
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Pentode
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Hertfordshire, UK.
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It actually says TRANS RLSE, four buttons, SECY, LINE, TRANS, TRANS RLSE.
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Dekatron
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: West Cumbria (CA13), UK
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That certainly makes more sense, so they are respectively "secretary", "line", "transfer (call to other extension)" and "release transfer" - the equivalents on a planset 105/107 being "speak to extension", "speak to exchange", "extension to exchange" and "release".
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Octode
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Saltburn-East, Cleveland, UK.
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Secy is a latching button which connects the intercom battery/circuit and operates the buzzer in the secretary's instrument, the buzzer in that phone being silenced by an additional gravity switch when the handset is lifted. Line (or Exch on the 740 version of this phone) does what it says on the tin and connects the Chief phone to, in this case, the PAX line. I think that the strapping can also be arranged to disconnect the secretary's line access to prevent overhearing if desired. Trans and Trans rlse are nothing more than a bell transfer switch, when the trans button is operated the bell circuit is disconnected in the chief instrument and "transfers" the bell circuit to an additional bell associated with the secretary's phone - The secretary phone had the option of two lines one exclusive and one shared with the chief. There is a relay which operates a lamp on both phones to alert an incoming call at any time and particularly when an intercom call is in progress. The trans rlse button is no more than a latch release for the transfer button The diagram for the chief instrument can be found here and the secretary instrument here Regards Andrew |
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Pentode
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Hertfordshire, UK.
Posts: 208
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I have it inside the bellbox.
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