View Single Post
Old 8th Jun 2020, 7:41 pm   #7
Pellseinydd
Heptode
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Flintshire, UK.
Posts: 707
Default Re: Bakelite phone question.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Geoff 555 View Post
Thank you all. I will take some pictures, I have listened to the talking clock and that was quiet but having said that it is quiet on the modern phone with the volume turned fully up.
What it sounds like when speaking I dont know but will find out later.
I will keep you up to date.
Thank you again.
Cheers.
Geoff.
AEP =Automatica Electrica Portuguesa . It was a Portuguese subsidiary set up around 1930 by the then Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company of Strowger Works, Edge Lane in Liverpool. ATM later became ATE (Automatic Telephone & Electric Ltd) until taken over by Plessey in the early 1960's. They manufactured 300 type Telephones similar to the GPO's Telephone No 332 . They later produced telephones of the GPO's 700 type. When I was with Plessey Communication Systems in late 1970's there were often AEP 3XX and 7XX type telephones on PAXes. So there is a 99% chance the circuit is that of a GPO Telephone 332.
Pellseinydd is offline