PYE/TMC
UNKNOWN TELEPHONES
Because of Telephone Rentals' policy of destroying their ex-rental telephones after a few contracts, early TMC phones are surprisingly difficult to find.  Many of the phones supplied from Fuld only had a TMC transfer (decal) to identify them and this dried out and flaked off, so the phones may be wrongly identified.  TMC does not seem to have produced many catalogues either and Telephone Rentals only seemed to have supplied their salesmen with documentation, so there is simply very little information available on them.

In the early years TMC bought parts, telephones and Fallwaehler systems from a company called Fuld.  Most Fuld cradles were simple "V" or "U" shapes.

The TMC moulding mark is "TE".

The following phones are identified as having been supplied by TMC but part/code numbers are not available.

Please contact the editor if you have any information or better pictures of the phones below.

 

Fuld CB desk set Double crank corporation set with Fuld handset
   
TMC Intercom - Circa 1920's Wall intercom with Fuld handset
   
TMC Magneto Intercom - Circa 1920's Wall Intercom with Fuld Transmitter
   
Wall Intercom with Fuld Transmitter Fallwaehler system 70-line desk intercom
   
Fallwaehler system 70-line wall intercom Requires confirmation
   
Intercom Intercom
   
Parlour Phone - 1922 Throat Microphone telephone - 1921
   
 
Loudspeaking telephone  

This telephone is thought to be from the R.M.S. Windsor Castle (Union-Castle Line) which was launched in 1959
The handset is marked TMC
The ship was sold to it's second owner, John Latsis in 1977 who refitted it, but evidently he decided to keep the ship as original as possible.  The ship was laid up in Jeddah and used as accommodation.
Eventually the ship was scrapped in 2005.

 

 
 
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