I have a GPO 332L coming to me from Carrickfegus, Ireland. My wife is over there visiting her sister. My brother in-law gave it to me for my collection. My wife will bring it home.
This is what it say's on the paper beside the phone. Anyone know what it means?
332L
Marks 1 2 2A
GPO FDI
Batch Stamped
FWR 65/2
No Drawer
Doug .... Here's a link to a British web site called Britishtelephones.com, that will provide you with some information on the set. GPO stands for "General Post Office" . Here's the link :
http://www.britishtelephones.com/t332.htm The set will be a nice one to have, since came from a family member.
Jeff
Quote from: Autonut on July 09, 2016, 01:24:29 PM
I have a GPO 332L coming to me from Carrickfegus, Ireland. My wife is over there visiting her sister. My brother in-law gave it to me for my collection. My wife will bring it home.
This is what it say's on the paper beside the phone. Anyone know what it means?
332L
Marks 1 2 2A
GPO FDI
Batch Stamped
FWR 65/2
No Drawer
332L > type
Marks 1 2 2A > See Jeff's link
GPO FDI > What is FDI?
Batch Stamped > Should that not be Batch Sampled? I took it to mean that full quality controll was only done on samples, not on the whole batch?
FWR 65/2 > FWR is a refurbishment facility? Which one? 65/2 = refurb date
No Drawer > means that it has no drawer. Some versions have a drawer. Yours has a drawer blank at the front.
Nice phone, great gift!
Thanks Jeff and Arwin,
That information helps. Now to find out the year it was made. 65/2 = refurbished date as Arwin says. I will have the phone in my hands on the 20th when my wife arrives home. My first British Telephone.
Refurbishment practices differ, but here in the Netherlands handsets, dials, body shells and innards were seperated and after cleaning and technical testing, reassembled. So you get a mixture of production dates of the various components.
It may be different in the UK though.
By the way, here are some pics of a version that has a drawer.
I like that one! I hope that this one will clean up as nice.
Quote from: Autonut on July 09, 2016, 04:36:45 PM
I like that one! I hope that this one will clean up as nice.
Thanks. I restored it, but had to send it back to the owner. Unfortunately. :-)
FWR = Factory Wales Refurbishment. It is a GPO factory in Cwmcarn, Wales.
332L is a model 332 with a lettered dial. One with a numbers only dial would be a 332F (figures).
Jack
Thanks Jack,
It's all coming together and it hasn't even left Ireland yet. :)
Sweet phone! I'm jealous. :P This is one of the last phones that I would really like to collect. Someday. It looks like the more recent #12 dial. Enjoy it!
Tina
Quote from: Autonut on July 09, 2016, 08:12:33 PM
Thanks Jack,
It's all coming together and it hasn't even left Ireland yet. :)
Let's hope it doesn't "all come apart" once it leaves Ireland!!
Tell her to really wrap it up well in the very middle of her suitcase. They are fragile Bakelite.
Terry
Quote from: cloyd on July 10, 2016, 07:02:24 PM
Sweet phone! I'm jealous. :P This is one of the last phones that I would really like to collect. Someday. It looks like the lmore recent #12 dial. Enjoy it!
Tina
The No 12 dial was current when the phone was refurbished so it is likely that is when it was changed.
Jack
My phone arrived home from Ireland yesterday. My wife had it packed safely in her suitcase for the flight. It made it through Canada Customs ok.
Looks good to start off.
Very nice looking phone, Autonut! Can't wait to see it cleaned up and hear details on it's condition.
Benny
Have you found the original date of this phone yet? They tended to put that refurb sticker over where the original date code would have been. Sometimes you can peel it off to find the original date code underneath.
It's interesting because by 1965 the GPO had been issuing the later plastic cased 706 for about 5 or 6 years. Back then there was a premium to pay if you wanted a 706 (known as the modern telephone). If you didn't pay the premium you usually still got a 300 series, unless you needed some kind of special instrument and got very lucky.
Quote from: andy1702 on August 19, 2016, 03:12:13 PM
Have you found the original date of this phone yet? They tended to put that refurb sticker over where the original date code would have been. Sometimes you can peel it off to find the original date code underneath.
It's interesting because by 1965 the GPO had been issuing the later plastic cased 706 for about 5 or 6 years. Back then there was a premium to pay if you wanted a 706 (known as the modern telephone). If you didn't pay the premium you usually still got a 300 series, unless you needed some kind of special instrument and got very lucky.
No, I haven't taken it apart yet. Just put on the shelf with the others for now. Not much time with summer being here. As soon as time permits, I'll do that and report back.
I finely got around to opening up this phone. Now my question is: Can it be wired up to Bell Canada's phone line here in the house?
Yes, you should be able to wire it up. When you take the base off the phone and see all those screw terminals, if you liik very closely you'll see they're numbered. Basically all you should need to do is connect one wire in your incoming cable to terminal 1 and the other to terminal 9. If you look at the phone from underneath with the terminals at the top, 1 & 9 are tip left and middle left, each with a metal jumber attached to next terminal.
I'm not sure what system you have in Canada, so the above assumes it's the standard two wires and you still use the capacitor inside the phone, unlike here in the UK where everything has to be converted, which is a right pain sometimes.
Your 332 shows it's been converted because of the curly cord to the handset. This would have originally been a platted cord on a 332.
Andy.