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Show me your French Socotels!!! If anybody has any:)

Started by LM Ericsson, October 07, 2011, 08:30:01 PM

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LM Ericsson

Here are mine. Years from the left: 1978, 1978, 1982, and 1975. The newest addition to my socotel collection is the orange one which I got for my birthday. My socotel collection is still growing!!!
Regards,
-Grayson

teka-bb

Here is one of mine:



The other one I have is 2 tone grey.
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Remco, JKL Museum of Telephony Curator

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teka-bb


Here are a few pictures of my 2 tone grey one:
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Remco, JKL Museum of Telephony Curator

JKL Museum of Telephony: http://jklmuseum.com/
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TCI Library: http://www.telephonecollectors.info/
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GG


Yep, I have one in two-tone grey, but unfortunately the handset cord is screwy such that it produces constant static (troubleshooting showed it is definitely the handset cord).  The sound of the ringers on that one is almost identical with a WE C4A.

What's with the faceplate on the DTMF version?   From the photos I can find it appears as if the area above the buttons is a clear plastic piece that serves as a number label retainer but these can go missing. 

teka-bb


Yes, I also have a DTMF version but no picture at this moment because I'm at work.

I'll try to post a picture later.
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Regards,

Remco, JKL Museum of Telephony Curator

JKL Museum of Telephony: http://jklmuseum.com/
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TCI Library: http://www.telephonecollectors.info/
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ReneRondeau

Here's my 1982. Somewhere I have (or at least had) a green/tan push-button (pulse, not tone) example but I can't for the life of me find it today.

I also had the earlier classic 1950s French phone, in both black and ivory, but I think I may have sold those.

FABphones

Grey. Ivory.
Rotary and push button.

Complete with écouteur to rear. Two with Party Line buttons.

 :)
A collector of  'Monochrome Phones with Sepia Tones'   ...and a Duck!
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Vintage Phones - 10% man made, 90% Tribble
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Etienne

I will have to take pictures of mine. We had one when I was a child (ivory push-button), I used a similar one several years before I turned to GDR bakelite. Souvenirs, souvenirs...

SOCOTEL= Socété des Constructeurs de Téléphones. A semi-public company created by the PTT Ministry especially to produce S63. All french telephone makers joined the company and branded the phones with their own names.
Last french phone with a mother-in-law earpiece... we still had one of the world's worse networks back in the 1960's! It also introduced the infamous F-010 plug, 6 contacts + lock. Huge contacts with bad results! I regularly have to repair my wall plug as contacts tend to bend...
By the way, S63 was designed by the ministry's laboratories (CNET), not by a private company as was the case with the Marty 1910 (AOIP), the 1918 (Ericsson if I remember well), 1924 (LMT aka ITT) and U43 (Ericsson). Only other state design was the unsuccessful Laurent during the war.

Doug Rose

I have A Grey SOCOTEL in like new condition....Doug
Kidphone

LM Ericsson

Regards,
-Grayson