TELEPHONE No's 123 and 123A

This is a coin box mounted on a wall board, complete with Transmitter arm. The Box Coin Collecting No. 13 has a bell receiver that locates on switch hooks fitted in the top left hand side of the casing. This telephone has no bell or induction coil within the mechanism casing, so requiring a Bellset No. 1 to be fitted adjacent.

Used in Automatic exchange areas and modified for use on UAX No. 5's (Diagram E627 refers - 1929).

The coin mechanism (Mechanism No. 13) was superseded by the Mechanism No. 14. The main difference being the bullet shaped brass connectors that locate on brass strips, fixed to the coin box case on the No. 13. The Mechanism No. 14 was also a used on it's own along with different telephones.

The Telephone No. 123A differs in having a returned coin chute trough at the bottom of the containing box (Box Cash No. 5) and extending along its whole width, surmounted by a plate glass front approximately 4.5 inches in depth. These telephones are installed in localities where fraud is found to be prevalent through criminally inclined persons blocking up the returned coin chute with paper, thus preventing Callers from obtaining the return of coins after making an ineffective call, see following Paragraph, and enabling the money to be dishonestly collected from the trough later on the removal of the paper.

Fitted with a Lock No. 31 (Engineering cover) and a Lock No. 4 (Coin box cover).

Below is the makers imprint and date from the rear of the back board from the set shown to the right.

Telephone included (1928):-
1 x Arm, Transmitter No. 1.
1 x Box, Coin-collecting No. 13, complete.
2 x Cords, Instrument No. 116.
1 x Cord, Instrument No. 222, waterproof.
1 x Cord, Instrument No. 613.
1 x Frame, Notice No. 18.
1 x Glass No. 22.
1 x Hook, Receiver F.
1 x Mounting, Dial, Automatic No. 5.
1 x Switch, Receiver No. 2.
1 x Transmitter No. 1.
1 x Receiver, Bell No. 1A.

To be requisitioned separately:-
Dial, Automatic No. 11 BA, FA, FS, FW, or LA, as required.
Lock No. 6.
Lock No. 31.
Key, Lock J (Fits Lock No. 31).

This telephone superseded the Telephone No. 119.

Circuit diagram - N223 (1926).

Circuit diagram - AT 1860.

Drawing for Frame Notice No. 18 - 8649.

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