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National Telephone Company wall phone
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National Telephone Co. (UK)National Telephone Co. (UK)The National Telephone Company (NTC) was a British telephone company, which from 1881 to 1911 consolidated smaller local companies in the early years of telephone adoption. The British government nationalised the company under the Telephone Transfer Act 1911 with the General Post Office taking over in 1912.Read more on Wikipedia → · Wood, British · Source/via: Science Museum Group (website)
About This Phone
This was the most common wall telephone used by the National Telephone Company after 1900 for central battery telephone exchanges, where electrical power for both signalling and speaking was obtained from a battery at the exchange. It used a 'solid-black' microphone. Likely produced in Antwerp, Belgium.
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