TELEPHONE No. 162


Telephone No. 162	Telephone No. 162CB

GPO version of the Siemens Neophone.

Introduced in 1929 this Bakelite cased table telephone was originally produced by Siemens. The GPO version did not have an integral bell and therefore a wall mounted Bellset No. 25 or Bellset No. 1 was used). The Bellset No. 25 could also be fitted under the telephone using special screws.

Although the telephone has a transformer fitted within it (the transformer is metal clad and is shown in the picture to the right, whilst the Telephone No. 232 has an Induction Coil which is paper covered), the phone is not ASTIC and an induction coil is still needed to complete the transmission path. The Bellset houses the induction coil and capacitor. A Bellset No. 1 or 25 must be fitted to the Telephone No. 162 to make it work. The phone would also work, without a Bellset, if they were wired in parallel with many of the wall phones of time time.

Some of the original telephones were fitted with cast iron bases, whilst later models generally can with a lead weighted Bakelite base. A few of the later phones occasionally had a base with a drawer.

Produced for Auto and CB exchanges.

Fitted with a handset called a Telephone No. 164.

Circuit diagram N262.

Superseded by the Telephone No. 232.

See also the Siemens Brothers No. 82.

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Pictures below are views of a Telephone No. 162 with a watch receiver fitted. Watch Receivers, allowed two people to listen to the call, were not a standard fitted. They attracted additional rental charges.