Phone [Push Button]
Maker and role
The General Electric Company Limited, Manufacturer
Telecom New Zealand Limited, Other contributor
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Object detail
Accession number
2021.4
Description
Green push button telephone, model 746 Gen 74/1.
Green handset attached to the main console via a coiled cord. The main console has a keypad with the numbers 1-9, including a star and hash key. A sticker on the top of the telephone reads, "To withhold your number / when making a call dial / *67 before the number. / For dial or older push button / phones: dial 1867 / before the number. / Telecom".
On the bottom of the of telephone is text printed in white, "G. E. C. / MADE IN ENGLAND / OF / THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO LTD ENGLAND / 746 GEN 74/1".
Green handset attached to the main console via a coiled cord. The main console has a keypad with the numbers 1-9, including a star and hash key. A sticker on the top of the telephone reads, "To withhold your number / when making a call dial / *67 before the number. / For dial or older push button / phones: dial 1867 / before the number. / Telecom".
On the bottom of the of telephone is text printed in white, "G. E. C. / MADE IN ENGLAND / OF / THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO LTD ENGLAND / 746 GEN 74/1".
Brief History
The British GPO introduced the 700 series of telephones in 1959; the 746 design, with a rotary dial, was introduced in the UK in 1967. This phone, a 746 model made in England, is most likely a dial phone converted to push button, possibly by a Telecom line technician. Push button telephones were introduced to New Zealand in the mid-1970s.
Marks
[1 2 3 / 4 5 6 / 7 8 9 / * 0 # Printed
To withhold your number / when making a call dial / *67 before the number. / For dial or older push button / phones: dial 1867 / before the number. / Telecom Printed
G. E. C. / MADE IN ENGLAND / OF / THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO LTD ENGLAND / 746 GEN 74/1 Printed
To withhold your number / when making a call dial / *67 before the number. / For dial or older push button / phones: dial 1867 / before the number. / Telecom Printed
G. E. C. / MADE IN ENGLAND / OF / THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO LTD ENGLAND / 746 GEN 74/1 Printed
Media/Materials
Credit Line
The General Electric Company Limited et al. Phone [Push Button], 2021.4. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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