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Western Electric, the captive equipment arm of the Bell System, produced the majority of the telephones and related equipment used in the U.S. for almost 100 years. In addition to its most popular models (202s, 302s, 500s, Trimline and Princess telephones), the company's labs produced many major innovations in communication technology.
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Interviews & Articles
An Interview With Antique Telephone Collector Gary Goff
How did I get started collecting antique telephones? As a kid I always liked phones, using them, talking on them. As a teenager I … [more]
Uncovering Lost Treasure - Antique Art Deco Telephones In Storage Since 1945
Every collector dreams of being the person to uncover cities of lost gold, the next Tutankhamen's tomb, or if not that, an overgro… [more]
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Old Telephones as Entertainment
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The Telephone Archive
If you're into old phones, check out this 600-page repository of images and historical information. Includes an ext… [read review or visit site]
Clubs & Associations: Telephones
- Antique Telephone Collectors Association
- Telephone Collectors International
- Telecommunications History Group
- Telecommunications Heritage Group (UK)
- Australasian Telephone Collectors Society, Inc.
Discussion Forums: Telephones
Other Great Reference Sites: Telephones
Top eBay Auctions
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Western Electric 1918 50 Al Candlestick Phone #2 Notchless Dial No Reserve!
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Antique Western Electric #17b Portable Field Telephone "in Very Nice Condition"
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Antique Oak Western Electric Wall Telephone Phone Patent 1913
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Vintage Bell System Pink Trimline Push Button Phone - Western Electric - Exc!!
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Western Electric 323 Candlestick Phone Pat 1913 & Western Electric Interphone
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Western Electric D1 1937 With F1 Handle Antique Art Deco Phone No Reserve!!
Patent 1924 Western Electric Rotary F1 Handset Black Telephone 
Vintage Western Electric 634a Black Telephone Ringer Box
Western Electric Telephone Com Key 2832 Cm Vintage Telephone
Vtg Working Western Electric Powder Blue Princess Touch Tone Telephone Phone
1913 Antique Western Electric 323w337 Candlestick Phone Telephone Kellogg Old!
Western Electric Model 634a Metal Ringer Box
Vintage Turquoise Bell System Western Electric Telephone Rotary Dial Very Retro!
Rare Bell Western Electric B1 Telephone Sept 16, 1924
Nice Antique Western Electric Bell Desk D1 Rotary Telephone W/ F1 Handset 1930's
Vintage Working Western Electric Bell Light Up Touch Tone Princess Phone 
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Recent News: Western Electric Telephones
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EPA Announces $69.3 Million to Clean Up Contaminated Sites and Revitalize ...
eNews Park Forest, May 24thLand-of-Sky, a local government planning and development organization located in NC, will use grant funds awarded to rehabilitate the Chatham Site, a former manufacturing plant, a mill and a Western electric plant into approximately 150 multifamily...Read more
Funeral Directors Sign In
Tulsa World, May 24thBartlesville - Todd Eugene Brown, 56, retired AT&T engineer, died Tuesday. Visitation 6-8 pm Thursday, Davis Family Funeral Home, Dewey, and service 2 pm Friday, Sooner Park Wesleyan Church. Bristow - Kendall Ray Orr, 45, glass plant maintenance...Read more
McCandless sound engineer focused on the positive
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, May 23rd"Even after Dad retired and spent time between Boca Raton, Fla., and McCandless, he volunteered to be the A/V engineer for the Boca Community Church," she added. Born in Chicora, Butler County, and raised in the North Side, Roland Gray was the son of...Read more
Target zones
Burlington Times News, May 14thThe fourth area, the North Church Street Corridor, stretches along North Church Street from about Courtland Terrace to Fairview Street, and includes the empty buildings of an old tire center, the former Western Electric plant and portions of Cum-Park...Read more
Atiyeh pitches geriatric hospital for former Agere building
Allentown Morning Call, May 9th
The east Allentown manufacturing plant found its place in American history in October 1951 when Western Electric, the equipment-manufacturing arm of AT&T, launched the world's first commercial production line for transistors...Read more
UC, Meet Time and Motion
No Jitter, May 8thYou can laugh off the old timers' notions that were widely used by Western Electric and numerous other firms even during the 1980s. I remember. The old studies by W. Edwards Deming are still in use today. "Time and Motion" studies cropped up from...Read more
Clinton 'Bud' Worsham, retired supervisor
Cape Gazette, May 1stHe worked for two years at Western Electric Co. He also worked as a plane assembly supervisor at the Glenn L. Martin Company during World War II and thereafter for 10 years, and in the accounting department at Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point Shipyard...Read more
Who's got next? 'Granny's Got Game'
ESPN, April 30th
Judy Barton left her little hometown, where she used to walk home from school for lunch, in 1953 for the Big Apple and a job at Western Electric. Back then, the average kid from Ridgefield Park, NJ, went straight into the workforce rather than to...Read more
