FINALLY!!!! This is an email I received from the Prince Edward Island telephone museum;
Hi Ted:
That isn't actually a field phone. It was a train telephone
made by Northern Electric for the Canadian railways for
communication to the dispatcher before the advent of radio
on trains.
At the side of the tracks, there were boxes on the poles,
that the crew could open and connect the phone to - crank
it, and get through to the dispatcher...
I have one of these shown in:
https://www.islandregister.com/phones/museum4.jpg Bottom shelf, right. Now, if I remember correctly, they
aren't self powered. If you remove the metal section
behind, you will find batteries.
Dave
Dave
On 31 May 2010 at 10:59, Ted W Lepp wrote:
> You have a new entry in your Telephone On P.E.I. Guest/Queries Book:
>
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> Hostname:
> IP: 38.113.114.156
> Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0;
> Trident/4.0; GTB0.0; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
> Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media
> Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
>
> Ted W Lepp <
[email protected]>
> Steinbach, Manitoba CAN
>
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> I have in my possession a self powered Northern Electric
> talk set?? Can you help identify it? The item was found in a small
> remote cottage in the Lake of the Woods along the Manitoba/Ontario
> border. The following are links to pictures of my unit.
>
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> om/albums/qq113/twlepp/th_fieldphone3.jpg[/IMG]>
[IMG]https://i439.photobucket.c
> om/albums/qq113/twlepp/th_fieldphone2.jpg[/IMG]>
[IMG]https://i439.photobucket.co
> m/albums/qq113/twlepp/th_fieldphone.jpg[/IMG]>
[IMG]https://i439.photobucket.c
> om/albums/qq113/twlepp/th_fieldphone5.jpg[/IMG]>
[IMG]https://i439.photobucket.c
> om/albums/qq113/twlepp/th_fieldphone4.jpg[/IMG]>
Any assistance you could give me would be greatly
> appreciated as so far I have hit only dead ends
> Thank You, Ted Lepp
>
> Monday, May 31, 2010 at 10:59:59 (ADT)
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The Telephone on Prince Edward Island:
https://www.islandregister.com/phones/phones.html The Telephone Museum of Prince Edward Island:
https://www.islandregister.com/phones/museum.html Free Admission - Call (902) 651-2762 to arrange a visit!
