Posted 18 days ago
dav2no1
(878 items)
Western Electric model 302 Telephone
Manufactured from 1937 - 1955
Material: Bakelite
Picked this up recently. Needs to be cleaned up some. Glad the site is working again!
Something I noticed right away, was how heavy the F1 headset is. The F1 handset unit contains solid metal magnets, heavy coils, and carbon-granule transmitters rather than lightweight modern digital speakers.
The other interesting feature is the Telephone Exchange Name on the dial. The Telephone Exchange Name identified the switching system to which a telephone was connected, and facilitated the connection of telephone calls between switching systems in different localities.
In this case, LIncoln 3- translates to LI3 which is the number 543. These Telephone Exchange Names made numbers easier for people to remember.
There is a piece of masking tape on the bottom with a date of 09-03-45.
Doubles as a blunt forces object,
Cool older phone Dave
dave2no1. Cool. :-)
"Something I noticed right away, was how heavy the F1 headset is. The F1 handset unit contains solid metal magnets, heavy coils, and carbon-granule transmitters rather than lightweight modern digital speakers."
That might have discouraged teenagers from spending endless hours on the phone. Either that, or it might have made them terrifyingly strong. };-)
Made to last forever
I love old phones! I have an old candlestick phone and bell box...somewhere (?)
Thank you all for the comments. And FYI.. I've reached out to CW and told them they need to make some of us moderators so we can fight all this recent spam attacks.
dav2no1:
"Thank you all for the comments. And FYI.. I've reached out to CW and told them they need to make some of us moderators so we can fight all this recent spam attacks."
Thank you for trying. Just a rough count revealed dozens of recent spam posts. Why do these rotten little pishers do it? Because they can.