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BRITISH BITS, Restored K6 kiosks, comprehensive range of new and refurbished spare parts, help and advice. 175 Swift Close, Deeping St James, PE6 8QS. Telephone (01778) 345968 www.britishbits.co.uk
John FERRIS, Hartlepool. (01429) 223922. Kiosk backboards, notice frames, notices and adverts, also cash tray locks.
FURNACE END FIRES sell Ex GPO/Royal Mail Post Boxes and associated equipment and collectables. Contact for lists and availability by email to info@fefbadges.com or in writing with sae to Furnace End Fires, Ersthaus, Atherstone Road, Furnace End, Birmingham B46 2LP stating interest. Also suppliers of collectable enamelled badges including ranges of Real Ale Breweries, Nostalgic Street Furniture (Post boxes, Telephone Box, RAC, AA etc), Nostalgic Advertising and Traction Engines. Can be viewed on www.fefbadges.com . Again contact as above with SAE stating interest.
GLEN CALL INTERNATIONAL, SCOTLAND UK., Tel; + 44 1592 840853 Fax; + 44 1592 840005 e-mail enquiries@glencall.co.uk Suppliers of letter boxes and other novelty items. Web site www.glencall.co.uk
MACHAN ENGINEERING, 103 Broad Street, Denny, Stirlingshire, FK6 6EL. (01324) 824309. Contact: Mr W. McMullan.
SALVOWEB's Thornton Kay recommends www.salvoweb.com for information about dealers in architectural and garden antiques, which include old K6 phone boxes, pillar boxes, wall-mounted and post-mounted post boxes.
Ford Village, Berwick TD15 2QG, England Telephone: +44 1890 820333 FAX:
+44 1890 820499
Mike SHORES, Dale House, Carlton Miniott, Thirsk, Yorks. Tel/fax (01845)
522381. Phone kiosks, internal fittings and letter boxes.
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UK GOODIES |
UK Goodies supplies restored K2 and K6 red telephone kiosks (newly manufactured telephone kiosks are available for orders of 10 or more), new and restored Royal Mail Post boxes (ER & GR lamp post boxes, pillar boxes, Penfold boxes, c-type boxes, etc.), other traditional British Street furniture, pub paraphernalia, and gifts to customers throughout the world.
We partner directly with the Royal Mail's preferred supplier of Cast Iron post boxes, BT & New World's preferred supplier of K2 & K6 phone boxes, and other leading British manufacturers. Strong partnerships make UK Goodies the ideal one-stop shop for high quality British gifts and street furniture at highly competitive prices. UK Goodies also provides consulting services to companies that are seeking to establish or further a strong "British brand" abroad. One of our most memorable consulting clients is opening an 8,000 square foot English theme pub in Manhattan!
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UNICORN KIOSK RESTORATIONS, |
| Telephone: (020) 8651 2436 Contacts:- Reg Lewis, Victoria or Tony. FAX: (020) 8651 5882 | |
9-00am to 5-00pm Monday to Friday and by appointment at any other time.
Reg Lewis writes " For your members information, we supply and restore Telephone Kiosks and other items of Cast Iron Street Furniture together with most Kiosk Components from the K2 to the K8, Kiosk Models, Kiosk Interiors, Bakelite Telephones, A & B Boxes, Period Payphones, Post Boxes, Lamp Columns, Street Signs and Cast Benches. Hire to the Film & TV Industries is also a speciality."
"We are a Quality Assured Company registered with NQA to comply with BS EN ISO 9002, and have carried out many prestigious restorations for BT, Local Authorities, Museums and Town Twinning Associations.We are closely associated to the National Kiosk Collection at Avoncroft and was one of the original sponsors and have recently helped by supplying new castings for the A.A. Box project." [February 2000]
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A subsidiary of... WHITE CONTRACTS |
White Contracts is a company that has restored, converted, changed dismantled, and installed Red Telephone Boxes across the World since 1986. We can supply our customers with fully restored K6 or K2 kiosks in any guise, be it a shower, aquariom, loo, or drinks cabinet. No idea is too wacky. We even let them go out in magnificent red paint only.
White Contracts, Fyfield Hall, Fyfield, CM5 OSA www.redphonebox.com
For cleaning and polishing telephones some special preparations are available. Since they were formulated specifically for the purpose, they will give far better results than normal household products.
Choose from:
- Plastic Polish in a bottle, ideal for thermoplastics (all modern telephones from the Tele. 706 onwards, also coloured 200 and 300 types). Great for removing scratches.
- Paste Polishing No. 5 in a tube, for black Bakelite phones (332 and older), radio knobs, Bakelite ornaments and other hard plastics. Despite the boring-sounding name, Paste Polishing No. 5, is known to connoisseurs as the ideal material for cleaning bakelite and other plastics (even plastic baths!). Unlike Brasso and other liquid polishes, it leaves no active residue, and as it also contains a waxy agent, it also gives a gloss finish. Paste Polishing No. 5 is the stuff the Post Office used to polish up their old bakelite phones and is marvellous stuff - ask any user!
Greygate Chemical Products Limited
Brunel Way
Stephenson Industrial Estate
Coalville
Leicestershire
LE67 3HF
Tel: 01530 839 222
Still manufacturing Plastic Polish and Paste Polishing No. 5
Sylmasta
We distribute Micro-Mesh which is used to polish telephone cases. We supply a number of restorers who have suggested we contact you.
Our site is:
And the link to the page is:
www.sylmasta.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Micro_Mesh_Abrasives_87.html
Tel: + 44 (0)1444 415 027
Fax: + 44 (0)1444 458 606
Transmitter Inserts Nos. 13 & 16
These are Transmitter insert 16, the Carbon Granule ones. They were made for the forces, but have standard PO markings on them. From memory they are dated '82 and made by DAE which I think was Ferantti. If you are looking for t16s avoid the STC 1978 ones with a red painted spot as these were a duff batch that were knowingly released as they were short of supplies at the time!
They also have 300 type transmitters in under a Navy "za" no. I seem to remember that the very early 706s had the earlier tx 13 in them and the extra terminal was for connecting the handset cord directly to the transmitter, unlike the 300 type which connected to the ring the tx rested on.
David ADAMS:
I have been collecting and dealing in Bakelite telephones for a number of
years and have displays in :
Knutsford Antiques - 113 King Street, Knutsford, Cheshire.
Lord Street - Southport, Lancashire
Tarporley Antiques - Tarporley, Cheshire.
All my telephones have been fully refurbished and are in excellent working
order. My stock changes frequently, however I always have a wide selection
available, ranging from Model 150 candlesticks, 200 & 300 series, European
and US 500 models.
I can be contacted 7 days a week on 07754 288783 or
adamsantiques@aol.com or visit
my website
www.davidadamsantiques.com
ANCHOR SURPLUS, The Cattle Market, Nottingham, NG2 3GY (0115) 986 4902, fax (0115) 986 4667. Some ex-military telecomms (and radio) equipment from time to time.
ANTIQUE AND BAKELITE TELEPHONE SHOP
Top quality restored bakelite telephones. Specialising in rare coloured 200/300 series models. I also pay top dealer prices for coloured bakelites.
Visit the on-line shop at www.antiquetelephones.co.uk or contact Neil Carpenter on 07980 354508 or telephonesales@btinternet.com
ANTIQUE TELEPHONE COMPANY, 12 Caxton Hill, Hertford, SG13 7NE (01992) 584650. Antique and reproduction phones.
BAKELITE TELEPHONES, Creech Farm, Southwick, Fareham, Hants., PO17 6HJ (01705) 254275. Reconditioned phones.
BARRY WARING CLASSICS, Heskin Hall, Wood Lane, Heskin, Chorley, Lancs. Open 7 days 10.00 to 5.30 Telephone: 07790 710631. Bakelite telephones. E-mail: barrywaring.classics@btinternet.com
William BATH Swanage (01929) 421036, London (020) 8336 1644, Mobile 07973 906233. Part-time dealer and collector of telephones and other artefacts of the first half of the 20th century. Bakelite phones and kiosk equipment always wanted. E-mail: williebath@swanageuk.screaming.net
CAMBRIDGE ELECTRONICS LABORATORIES MA. (USA)
Download a free PDF from Cambridge Electronics Laboratories "Old Telephones:How to repair and rebuild them." by Dr. Jeffrey Race- Contains 22 schematics and 20 pages of text detailing repair and restoration of historic magneto and common-battery instruments and their conversion to use on modern lines.
CANDLESTICK & BAKELITE (Martin Barnett), Box 308, Orpington, Kent, BR5 1TB (020) 8467 3743. Selection of original old phones. E-Mail: candlestick.bakelite@tesco.net Website: www.candlestickandbakelite.co.uk
CARGILL TELEPHONE COMPANY (Cartelco), Box 1000, Cargill, Ontario, N0G 1J0, Canada (00 1 519-366 2249). Warehouse full of old phones and spares, mail order.
CHARISMA COLLECTABLES " We specialise in restoring old telephones, with 32 years experience [ex. BT]. We have a good selection on sale at our shop at 'Past & Present', 35 King St, Knutsford, Cheshire. Also specialising in vintage radio repair. Callers most welcome." Tel. (01606) 834140 or e-mail enquires@vintagetelephones.co.uk
CHICAGO OLD TELEPHONE Co., 327 Carthage Street, Sanford, NC 27330, USA (00 1 919-774 6625 or 00 1 800-843 1320).
DEJA-VU ANTIQUES, Hatters Row, Horsemarket Street, Warrington, Lancs. (01925) 232677. Reconditioned old phones.
Tony FALZON, 7 Kilbreck Street, Benowa Waters, Qld 4217, Australia (00 61 7-5539 3097). Reproduction transfers for Ericsson and British Western Electric telephones.
John FERRIS, (01429) 223922. Kiosk backboards, notice frames, notices and adverts, also cash tray locks.
GALERIE ALTE TECHNIK, Moltkestrasse 48, D-12202, Berlin (00 49 172-924 4013; fax 00 49 5421-1272). Telephones and telegraph items, also German radios.
Roger HARVEY, Stone Lodge, Deer Park, Milton Abbas, Blandford, Dorset, DT11 0AY. Telephones bought and sold, also invisible mending and restoration service for coloured bakelite telephones.
HOME & COLONIAL TELEPHONES, 17 Trinity Close, Great Burstead, CM11 2RZ. Tel/fax (01277) 631713. All early telephones bought, sold, restored and converted; send SAE for full information.
HOUSE OF TELEPHONES, 2677 East Valley Drive, San Angelo, TX 76903, USA (001 915-482 0101, fax 00 1 915-655 4177). Free catalogue of antique and reproduction phones, with large range of spare parts, cords, etc.. Visa, Mastercard.
Geoff JULL, 20 Valley Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand (tel/fax: 00 64 9-478 5161). Accurate reproduction metal parts finished in nickel plate or polished brass: nuts, cradles, tear drops and pegs for repairing Ericsson skeleton telephones. Also turned wooden handles for early Ericsson spoon receivers.
Marco LAUDANI, 716 Elgar Road, Doncaster, Vic 3108, Australia (00 61 3-9848 7518). VHS video tapes (PAL and NTSC) on telephone collecting.
Patrik LAUNO, Turin, Italy (tel/fax 00 39 11-669 2172) e-mail: morbier@tin.it. Specialist in rare European telephones.
MAHANTANGO MANOR INC., Box 170, Dalmatia, PA 17017, USA. Quality reproduction telephones and replacement parts.
METRO RETRO, 21 Canonbury Lane, London, N1 2AS (shop) (020) 7288 1086, enquiries tel/fax (01245) 442047. 'Deco' phones and electric fans.
NEW WIRELESS PIONEERS. James and Felicia Kreuzer. Box 398, Elma, New York, NY 14059, USA (00 1 716-681 3186). Rare books on early telephones and telegraphs. Catalogues issued.
THE OLD TELEPHONE COMPANY, (Established 1986) Battlesbridge Antiques Centre, The Old Granary, Battlesbridge, Wickford, Essex, SS11 7RE Tel: (01245) 400601 Fax: (01245) 401054 Gavin Payne writes:
I much prefer customers to come and see me. I am open 7 days a week, but please ring first for times.
I have an extensive range of old telephones, all restored by me to a high standard, and all shown actually working in a "hands on" display. There are usually at least 30 telephones on show. They range from the turn of the century to the late 70's. I do not buy or sell reproduction telephones. I conduct a fast conversion and repair service for callers only. This is a specialist unit in an antiques centre.
My web site address is www.theoldtelephone.co.uk/ and e-mail address is gp@theoldtelephone.co.uk
ON THE AIR - The Vintage Technology Centre, The Highway, Hawarden,
Deeside, England, CH5 3DN. Supplier of quality restored radios, as well as
some telephones, components, books etc. Publishes a regular catalogue/magazine
(Airwaves).
www.vintageradio.co.uk E-mail (Steve Harris) - info@vintageradio.co.uk
Phone/Fax - (01244) 530300 Mobile - 07778 767734
PHONECO, PO Box 70, 207 East Mill Road, Galesville, WI 54630, USA (00 1 608-582 4124, fax 00 1 608 582 4593). Legendary assembly of old telephones, more than the eye can possibly count. A 'must visit' place by all accounts. A 30-page colour catalogue is available featuring more than 85 different old phones as well as 45 modern 'character' instruments. Also in this comprehensive catalogue are pages of bellsets, braided cords of all descriptions, magnetos and spare handles, dials, switch-hooks, screws, escutcheons and so forth. A few items are reproductions or remanufactured; these are clearly marked. Prices are reasonable and a 20 per cent discount is available to dealers buying in quantity. Mail orders paid by credit card are welcomed.
Website www.phonecoinc.com
e-mail phonecoinc@aol.com
PT SUPPLY, Box 38, Pillow, PA 17080, USA (00 1 717-758 1706).
F.G. RICHARD, Marché Vernaison, Allée no. 3, Stand 107 bis, 94300 St-Ouen, Paris (00 33 1-4011 2913 stall, 00 33 1-6459 9776 home). This stall is in the famous Vernaison flea market, close to the Porte de Clignancourt station on the Paris Metro. The market is lively on Saturdays and Sundays, pretty dead on other days; it is also the only flea market in Paris worth trawling for this kind of merchandise. You will also find other stalls with similar sorts of plunder.
RUPERT's VINTAGE WIRELESS (020) 8997 8749 and (01243) 788763. Ealing shop now closed. Still trading in retirement; mainly radio but usually some telephones as well.
Liz SHELTON, 15/126 Frasers Road, Mitchelton, Qld. 4053 Australia, Phone: + 61 7 33550522, and email: jande@smartchat.net.au -Reproduction twisted receiver cords and three, four and six-conductor plaited cords for telephones in tan, black, green, white and red.
SCIENTIFIC & MEDICAL ANTIQUES, P.O. Box 4252, London, SW20 0XS (020) 8946 1470, fax (020) 8944 7961. Sales stand at Portobello Antiques Market (Units 12-13 downstairs), 282 Westbourne Grove, London W11. Open Saturday from 09.00-13.00 or by appointment. Induction coils, telegraphs, galvanometers, X-ray tubes, Wimshurst and electrostatic apparatus, early wireless, books and other electrical antiques.
SOLITEK- Looking for Strowger equipment? The company appear to be mainly procurement specialists who locate obsolete parts or re-manufacture them. It is likely that they only deal in large orders.
STUDIO SAV, 17 Bell Street, London, NW1 (020) 7258 3448. Some telephones, also 1930s-1960s vintage hi-fi and wireless, buy/sell, repairs. Not the lowest prices.
TELEPHONE LINES Ltd, 304 High Street, Cheltenham, GL50
3JF (01242) 583699, fax 01242) 690033. Wide range of antique and
reproduction phones, plus plaited cords.
Website: www.telephonelines.net
E-mail: enquiries@telephonelines.net
Rick UNWIN, 18 Ulaka Road, Ingle Farm, SA, 5098, Australia (00 61 8-396 1740). Reproduction parts for Swedish Ericsson phones. Walnut crowns and metal keyhole escutcheons.
Arthur WILLIAMS, 26 Centre Street, Invercargill, New Zealand (00 64 3-216 8985). Reproduction wood parts for old telephones including scroll-top crests, handset grips, ear caps, button feet and writing slopes.
It's always worth a look in
Exchange & Mart or
Loot, as you never know what might
turn up. Get them from your local newsagent, or visit them on-line. You will
need to register to have access to the full range of ads.
Maplin Electronics Plc
are a good source for all types of components and their catalogue
is a wealth of information. If you are doing any plate-wiring (e.g relay
sets) try the solid core wire (1/0.6mm) copper 22AWG
(23SWG) available in 100 metre reels.
As they say, other trade mags. are also available...
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