A glimpse of the more than 1000 telephony museum pieces.
The collection includes the following;
Wooden magneto and CB wall phones (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 60 wooden wall phones including xxxx full size Ericsson, Scandinavian and American types.
Approximately 6 minature and single cell types
Early and rare wooden wall phones (Click to open to more details)
National telephone Company payphone 1901
BWE twin box 1890
BWE Mag/CB pair 1890's
BWE twin box Hunningscone transmitter
Stirling twin box x 2
American Electric twin box swing away transmitter 1896-1900
Northern Electric tall case twin box 1901
American Electric National Tel Co Blake transmitter, belt drive magneto 1880's
Blakey and Emmot Halifax twin box Blake transmitter 1880's 1890's
ATE wall dial phone with nuckledster dial 1905
French phones (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 35 French phones including many examples 1880's to pre1900, xxxx carbon pencil microphone types, wooden table phones and 12 candlestick types,2 violin phones, 1 marble phone, 1 PMG Berthon, 3 shield type wall phones,4 short stem table phones.
Pay phones (Click to open to more details)
Approx 10 long tom vtpt's,,6 short tom vtpt's, 3 AB button phones, 3 x CT1's including 2 armoured type, 2 CT2's, (Victorian design) 2 early Australian payphones, media phone, xxxx CT3's, CT3 on backboard with instructions and light, xxxx Goldphones, including 1 fully factory refurbished (in box), 17 Bluephones, 7 Victa Red various denominations, 2 Easiphones, 15 various payphones including some prototypes,quantity payphone parts, various types, phone card vending machine, 2 Taxi phones, various cabinet notices, large quantity of payphone documentation.
Payphone cabinets (Click to open to more details)
1 red dome top cabinet (requires restoration) fitted with AB button phone, 1 aluminium cabinet, 3 heritage type enclosures 2 fitted with push button CT3 type phones.
Candlestick phones (Click to open to more details)
16 CB and 4 dial candlesticks (British, American, European)
Ericofons (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 50 Ericofons including a clear case model and a Chinese dial model, 8 x 700 series models.
Coloured bakelite phones (Click to open to more details)
8 ivory 300 and 400 type, 162 ivory, 232 ivory, green 300, green 162, 2 Indian 300 type, 3 x red 300 type
Black bakelite phones (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 40 300 and 400 series dial/CB phones, 12 magneto phones, 10 232 type phones, approx. 10 foreign types
Metal table phones (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 30 metal table phones including 6 skeletal, a Tunnen phone, spider phone, 1970's anniversary skeletal, 20 enclosed Ericsson and Scandanavian makes.
Wooden and metal dial type wall phones (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 12 wooden and metal auto wall phones.
Plastic phones (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 80 plastic phones from around the world.
800 Series phones (Click to open to more details)
Large quantity of 800 series and later table and wall phones, many in restored working condition and some new in boxes.
T200 series (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 30 rare and unusual colours including several made I Australia for the Hong Kong Telephone Company. Several T200's new in boxes.
Switchboards (Click to open to more details)
Working 80 line PMBX, 7 pyramid switchboards including 2 fixed transmitter type, 2 20 line PMBX's (1 is new), 1+3, 2 +4, 2+6 and 3+9 PMBX's, 2 early Ericsson 4 line type.
Intercom phones (Click to open to more details)
A range of approximately 20 intercom phones including telephone intermediate, A5/A10, Dictaphone, Russian 6 line 1970's,
Military/Test phones (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 12 military phones including Ericsson Boer war type, 2 WW1 types, Japanese WW2 (cowhorn handset), Russian 1928 field phone, Russian 1970's field phone, Korean war fieldphone (MASH phone)
Mobile phones (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 36 mobile phones ranging from the earliest type used in Australia up to the introduction of Smartphones.
Telegraph equipment (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 6 morse keys, a sounder box, a morse inker, various repeaters and sounders.
Siemens model 100 teleprinter, traffic officers patchboard,
Metal telephone enamel signs (Click to open to more details)
Approximately 16 telephone/telegraph related enamel signs, 4 painted signs, including a rare Telegraph Office enamel sigh from the Flemington saleyards in Sydney.
Miscellaneous equipment (Click to open to more details)
Crossbar ARD 526 PABX, Calculograph,, 2 x shotboxes, , Wheatstone bridge, 2 resistance boxes,
test desk,various buttinskis
Insulators
Approx 60 insulators, mainly types used in Australia.
Spare parts
Ericsson and Ericsson style handsets, miscellaneous parts, quantity dials, various cords and cordage, payphone parts.
Requiring restoration
Approximately 12 Ericsson and other wall phones requiring restoration