TELEPHONE No. 756 & 8756

Line powered, 10pps push button table, telephone based on the Telephone No. 746 with provision for two press buttons.

Initially Telephones No. 756 were prefixed by a stroke number to indicate the manufacture. Subsequently these were not used as all variants are interchangeable and future differences in design manufacture were indicated by a mark number.

Circuit diagram - N856.

Specifications - S1203, S1204 and S1485.

Telephone No. 8755
In 1982 the Telephone No. 8755 Ivory was introduced and this fitted with high impedance bell ringer and a new style Plug and Socket cord (Cord Connecting No. 4/502 3000mm).

Telephone No. 8755 was produced in Mark's 6,7,8 and 9.

Mark 6, 7, 8 and 9 can in the colours Ivory and Grey. The Mark 9 was also part of the Phoenix Phone scheme and can in Pampas, Primrose, Lime, Mushroom and White. These were made obsolescent in 1983.

Telephone No. 3/756 Ivory

Additional information

Model	Mark	Ivory	Grey	PBU No.	Introduced	Remarks
Tele 756	Mk 1	y	y	53A/1	8/79	STC AS Tele 1/756
	Mk 2	y	y	53B/1	1/80	STC cost reduced known as Tele 1/756 Mk 2
	Mk 3	y	y	53A/2	4/79	GEC as Tele 2/756
	Mk 4	y	y	53A/3	4/79	PYE-TMC as Tele 3/756
	Mk 5	y	y	53C/1	1/80	STC
	Mk 6	y	y	53B/2	7/80	GEC
	Mk 7	y	y	53B/3	7/80	PYE/TMC
	Mk 8	y	y	53B/4	4/81	Plessey
	Mk 9	y	y	53A/5	1/82	BTF
	Mk 10	y	y	53B/4	3/82	Plessey
Tele 1/756		y	y		8/76	STC
Tele 2/756		y	y		1/79	GEC
Tele 3/756		y	y		1/79	PYE/TMC

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Last revised: February 11, 2023