Strowger related photos (and sounds)



This site is intended for Strowger aficionados who know what they are doing, (see the photo of aficionados doing what only they know how - partying in a PABX4 switch room).

Note that the term UAX below may mean UAX or SAX.

Some of the links on this page were corrupt, so the links were diverted to a similar page on the THG web site.

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PABX's

PABX1
PABX1
PABX2
PABX3
PABX4
PABX5
PABX6
PABX7
Hendon College PABX4
Crawley Hospital PABX3 before rescue 
Listen to Crawley Hospital PABX3, just before rescue
Catford PABX4 before transfer to Kelvedon Hatch Bunker
Group visiting Ford Factory PABX's


PAX's

GEC PAX 50
GEC PAX 50
GEC Pax
GEC Pax again 
Hospital switchboard closed in 1995
DeTeWe Pax in Rushgreen hospital
Crossbar Pax at Hendon
STC 4119 Pax, MEB
GEC 50 line uniselector Pax
GEC SE50 Pax
GEC 50 line uniselector pax, in wooden glass fronted case
1930s Pax
German T and N 27 line Pax
Ericsson PAX Tester


UAX's

Painscastle UAX A Building
Abermule UAX A and B1
Brandon Creek UAX A and B1
Turgis Green UAX B1 and A (disused)
Eardiston UAX B1
Mamhead UAX A(sort of) (disused)
Madox UAX A and B1
Paxford UAX A and B1
Angle UAX A (disused)
Crawfordjohn UAX13 A building, last along with Elvanfoot, to close in 1995
New use for old UAX B building
Llanfihangel Gobion B1 and A
Holt U14 D (or is it F?) building
Alford D? building
TRT172 Coin and Fee Relay Set Tester


Repeaters/Cable Huts

Tubney Repeater R3 building
Disused cable hut near Bridgenorth
R3 repeater building XLG
CR6 repeater station building
1930s Repeater racks
Repeater hut in Scotland, wind powered


Faraday House

Faraday Building, London
Faraday House, Toll B Relay sets
Faraday House Toll B General View No. 1
Faraday House Toll B General View No. 2
Faraday House Toll B TDF 166k
Faraday House Toll B Strip Relay sets
Faraday House Toll B looking sad


MNDX No341

MNDX 341 in preservation 
MNDX341 being recovered from Teradyne Ltd
Inside MNDX341, as found no. 1
Inside MNDX341, as found no. 2
Inside MNDX341, as found no. 3
"West Forest" Mobile exchange at Wokingham


Buildings General

IPOEEJ article on buildings page 1
IPOEEJ article on buildings page 2
IPOEEJ article on buildings page 3
Fakenham GSC 
Porthmadog GSC and AMC 
Sixties style Non-director/TXE2 building
Sixties style TXK building and island link
Sixties style Non-director/TXE2 building
Sixties style Non-director building (dead)
Sixties style Non-director/TXE2 building
Victoria, Brum, derelict
Derelict RAF radio station, VFT and switch room


Public Strowger Autofloors

London Exchange turn-arounds
Crossbar public exchange
Tring Non-Director
Romford Non-Director
Register Translators in a non-director


Crossbar

Installation 1
Installation 2
Installation 3
Installation 4
Installation 5
Installation 6
Installation 7


Hull Corporation

Newland
Mytongate
East
South
Wincolmlee
City trunking diagram


Defence Installations

Underground emergency switchboard in Kent. March 1999
Smaller emergency switchboard in fallout protected room. This site included a hand operated air filtration unit, and sleeping accomodation. It was small and pokey, March 1999
Derelict RAF radio station, VFT and switch room
Trashed wartime VF Telegraph racks at ex RAF radio station

Visit the amazing Rothwell Haigh underground repeater station just before destruction. Untouched since 1985!


Museums

Milton Keynes Museum of Rural Telecomms
Kiosks at Avoncroft
AA kiosk near Crickhowell
Avoncroft UAX B1 building
Old GPO photo of operator training


Sounds

Sound of a UAX 13 (probably about 600 line) in operation
Sound of a 10,000 line Strowger Public exchange
Sound of a 400 line PABX3
Limpsfield Chart Exchange closure, Found lurking on an Announcer 12A in the depths of Toll B
Oxted announcement, source as above
VF Generator No 48A, a big noisy brute generating 12 tones from 540 to 1980 cps (Circuit Diagram)

 

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