SIEMENS BROTHERS No. 69

Steel cased wall telephone with dial.

Provision was made for a watch receiver to be fitted.

A number of these phones were supplied to the South African Post Office.  Originally provided with the Siemens Brother Dial, Switch No. 1 (BPO Dial, Automatic No. 3 - see picture to the right), this would have been replaced depending on the type of exchange the phone was connected to.

This telephone changed circuitry a number of times over the years and this can be seen by the diagrams shown below.

One diagram has a transformer installed to assist with side tone.  There was a similar arrangement with the GPO Telephone No. 162.

South African Post Office diagram
With transformer

South African Post Office diagram
Without transformer

The phone below was sold on Ebay
Looks like diagram above matches up with it

Last revised: March 28, 2022

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