BELL TELEPHONE MANUFACTURING Co.
BTMC (ANTWERP)
TELEPHONE INSTRUMENTS

Antwerp style Telephone - Models 27186, 2724, 2725 and 2731
BTMC history
Golfball style Candlestick
Bakelite 300 style - Model 2749 and 2849
Telephone with rounded front and big handle - Kettle Phone - YA / RTT56 / U56 / 2780 / 2870

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Telephone List - Model number list
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20 Line electronic PAX

This is mainly a UK oriented web site, but as BTMC telephones are regularly found in the UK, they are included here for identification purposes.  The main archive of BTMC equipment is Telecommunicatie Erfgoed Stichting (TELES), which is where many of the pictures on the BTMC pages are taken from.

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The Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company (BTMC) was founded as a base from which Europe could be covered by the Bell Telephone Company, later to become the Western Electric Company (Standard Electric) and then ITT.  Click here for BTMC history.  The UK was covered by a subsidiary called the British Western Electric Company.

STC supplied and manufactured many of these telephone in the UK - Click here for the STC telephone menu.

Antwerp telephones produced by STC can be easily identified as they have engraved lines moulded into the 'ears' of the cradle, making them look rather like cats paws.

RTT was formed in 1930 by the Belgian government and changed its name to Belgacom in 1991.

List of BTMC Offices worldwide

Last revised: February 21, 2026