NATIONAL TELEPHONE COMPANY (NTC)
TELEPHONES

METAPHONE
INSTRUMENTS, SUBSCRIBERS - NTC renamed by the GPO and NTC Numbered telephones
TELEPHONE LIST - 1903
TELEPHONE LIST - 1911 Stock Catalogue
TELEPHONE LIST - unnumbered
QUICK FIND - Thumbnail pictures of all NTC telephones

The information in the Telephone List was taken from the 1903 National Telephone Company (NTC) Sales Catalogue and an undated NTC catalogue.  The 1911 telephone list is also available, but when the GPO took over the NTC, another list may have been compiled by NTC staff as a stock count, which showed differing item numbers.  The GPO inherited all the NTC equipment and the NT telephones were renamed as "Instruments, Subscribers, Wall/Table, N.T. No. X.  Many of these were made obsolescent relatively quickly but some were subsumed into the equivalent GPO Rate Book number.

Many telephones were made for NTC by the Western Electric Co, (BTMC) and British Ericsson.  In fact, an agreement with NTC allowed British Ericsson to open the Beeston factory in Nottingham.

Last revised: November 16, 2025