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Re: A query - code ring party lines.

garry_murdoch — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:53:58 GMT

OK, will do. It's been moved from the place where I originally found it several months ago. No-one working in the area seems to remember it but I'll keep

Re: A query - code ring party lines.

Jack Ryan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:26:00 GMT

Garry, It would be great if you found one! In addition to the circuit, some photographs would be really good - of the phone itself (inside and out) and of the

Re: A query - code ring party lines.

garry_murdoch — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:46:30 GMT

Bob, I think that I came across one of these phones in a storage area of the Sydney Telstra Museum. I didn't know what it was either and now I am trying to

Re: A query - code ring party lines.

garry_murdoch — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:41:40 GMT

Bob, I think that I came across one of these phones in a storage area of the Sydney Telstra Museum. I didn't know what it was either and now I am trying to

Re: A query - code ring party lines.

Jack Ryan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:38:12 GMT

I forgot to mention that the auto party line is covered in Plan 12 of the 1965 Technician's handbook. The use of 400 type phones is specified - obviously

Re: A query - code ring party lines.

Jack Ryan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:46:17 GMT

Thanks for that Bob - I had forgotten that you actually saw those installations. I think that the systems using the 800 series phones on a plinth were the last

Re: A query - code ring party lines.

bobestreich — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:32:29 GMT

There were, very briefly, auto party lines in use in Australia apart from the Duplex service. The ones I came across were used in country areas to provide

Re: A query - code ring party lines.

Ian Jolly — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:47:42 GMT

Thanks for that Bob - your auto service sounds just like the BPO's separate metering shared service. It initially used a Tele 310 plus a wooden Bellset 41

Re: A query - code ring party lines.

bobmills@... — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:30:50 GMT

Ian, Greetings from down under. To my knowledge we never had any party lines with automatic code ringing. There were lots of party lines but always served by

A query - code ring party lines.

Ian Jolly — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:03:19 GMT

A query from here in the UK. Did any public automatic exchanges have code ringing party lines? Lines where there were several phones bridged across a single

'Easiphone'

Ian Jolly — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:57:21 GMT

Hi all Has anyone any information on the 'Easiphone' coinbox telephone made by Halls Telephone Accessories in the UK? I have one in my collection and would

A good story !

Ian Jolly — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:39:25 GMT

A good story for an Indian 'fake' trying to be passed off as an original! eBay item 250489884072 Ian Jolly

Re: Fotos 27/06.

Brian O'Donnell — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:05:45 GMT

Hi All, My hotmail contact list was attacked and sent that message to all of my contacts. Regards Brian Brian O'Donnell Canberra Australia 02 62900972(h)

Re: Fotos 27/06.

ron — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:01:18 GMT

Re: [australasian_telephones] Fotos 27/06.Lets hope no poor member of the group got caught. Cheers all Ron in the UK ... From: Jamie Bone To:

Re: Fotos 27/06.

Jamie Bone — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:53:31 GMT

I¹ve clicked on one (fairly safe because I¹m using a Macintosh) and it¹s trying to download an MS-DOS executable... From: ron