Candlestick
for use with Bellset No. 1 in CB areas. Many Telephone No. 2's were converted
by the GPO to Telephone No. 150's
after recovery from customers premises.Candlestick
for use with Bellset No. 1 in CB areas. Many Telephone No. 2's were converted
by the GPO to Telephone No. 150's
after recovery from customers premises.
No provision was made for a dial.
There was also no provision on the telephone for a dial label. Later models were fitted
with an aluminium cover on the microphone head that contained a small label.
Introduced around 1906.
Supplied by Ericsson, Model No. CG1200.
Collectors Information - what to look for
Circuit diagram - Web users click here - CD users click here
See also the Telephone Efficiency Committees
Report on Common Battery Area telephones.
Additional Information
The Golf Ball candlestick,
made by Western Electric was the early version of what the G.P.O. numbered a
Telephone No. 2. It was used first by the National Telephone Company. Early
examples have their transfers on them.
When the Post Office purchased the National Telephone Company it continued to
use that type of telephone. I have seen a few examples with G.P.O. engraved on
the upright stem of the telephone. The transfers having been removed. Many of
the early telephone books by Preece, Aitken and others show this type of
telephone as current subscribers apparatus. To the best of my knowledge these
golf ball candlesticks were just used in Europe.
Laurence Rudolf
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