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Originally Posted by Sparks
This telephone arrived this morning. It works ok but I've noticed a few oddities:
- Foam rubber lining inside the case;
- A mesh grille where the blanking button would otherwise be;
- Also just noticed very fine mesh around the insides of the bell gongs.
'I assume all these are tropicalisation devices....
The GEC name for the phone is GECOPHONE, part number TEL2K/CTT.'
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It looks very similar, cradle-wise, to my 1961 Ericsson auto N1901A-43 (which actually has a tiny GEC handset logo at the cable entry). Same shiny chrome handle and paster diagram. But I can't imagine why it has a mesh blanking plate instead of a plastic blank in there! Unless it was in a humid place where moisture might accumulate in the void. Or perhaps a DFA made later if the plastic blank went missing?
Other than that, it sounds like a tropicalised version.