GEC Telephones 1100 and 1200

The GEC Telephone 1100 was an attempt to simplify the design of the Tele. 706, using a single coil ringer mechanism and a 'circuit shunt' instead of the normal current regulator. By far the most striking change was the 'spoked' dial, which was said to make the digits more visible without resorting to a separate number ring. The dial could be supplied to produce either 10 or 18 impulses per second.

Colours:
Two-tone grey, black.

Users:
GEC's subsidiary, the Reliance Telephone Company, certainly used them but not widely. The product appears to have been a failure.

See brochure photograph below.

The Telephone No. 1200 was GEC's own version of the Post Office Telephone 706, also known as the 'New Gecophone'.