| K8165  CENTRAL BATTERY TELEPHONE
TABLE PATTERN
Consisting of a 'Solid Back' Central Battery type Transmitter, with Adjustable Knuckle
Joint, Automatic Switch Hook with pure Platinum Contacts, Terminals mounted on a fibre
Block fixed to base of Telephone, Double-pole 'Bell' Receiver in 'Unbreakable'
Ebonite Case with enclosed Terminals, and Green Silk-covered Flexible Receiver Cord.
A Flexible Connecting Cord 6 foot long is also provided for attachment to the Bell Box.
The base of the Telephone is of Pressed Steel, Stove-enamelled, with a Leather Ring
fastened to the base to prevent injury to desk or table when the Telephone is in use.
All external Brass work heavily Nickel-plated, and no part of the electrical connections
are in contact with the body of the Telephone.
Needs a bell box to function correctly.
Price in 1908 was £2.2.0
Taken from the GEC Telephone Catalogue, K Section, 10th Edition, 1908
Note: This phone is a
Stromberg Carlson telephone and it is possible that GEC bought these in and
resold then under their name.
K8165
Peel Conner Electro-Magnetic
Central Battery Phone
Table pattern 'Candlestick' telephone fitted with long distance speaking solid
back transmitter and "bell" shaped receiver.
Case of black enamelled pressed steel.
Needs a bell box to function correctly.
1926 model shown to the right.
Cost in 1916 was £2.2.6
Cost in 1926 was £2.19.0
Taken from the 1916 and 1926 GEC catalogues
See also Peel Conner Desk Stand
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GEC K8165