TELEPHONE No. 172


Automatic Pedestal Telephone

Candlestick telephone used with Switchboard TL597 and possibly others.

Press button in base.

Introduced around 1915.

The equipment to the left is a Unit, Auxiliary Apparatus No. 61.

Diagram - N272.

Click here for pictures of a Candlestick before refurbishment

Click here for Candlestick construction and how to dismantle the phone

Candlestick construction

Candlestick Manufacturing (Messrs Keitmann)

How to convert to Plug and Socket

Collectors Information - what to look for

Telephone mouthpiece sanitisers


 

 
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