Reynolds Aluminum?

[Tim]

Just wondering if anyone has seen markings like this before on the inside base of a phone.  It reads Reynolds Aluminum, as well as LAD 24S - O... I'm guessing the LAD is the end of something and the O starts something else....but, no idea what it would be.

[Tim]

Whoops...meant to put this in the Collector's Corner part, not the auctions......

[Dennis Markham]

Tim, I can move it there.

Is that a Galion phone?  It seems I've seen some printing like that on an aluminum base but I don't recall actually reading the words Reynold's Aluminum.  Interesting.

[Tim]

Yes, Dennis.  It is from one of the North Electric/Leich telephones that I mentioned in the thread about cleaning out my grandparent's attic. 

[JorgeAmely]

It will be interesting to check if in October 1946 Reynolds was a supplier of this aluminum stock to Galion in Ohio.

Any detectives around here?

[Dan/Panther]

I'm sure they bought flat stock from Reynold's, I'm kind of surprised they didn't wash it to remove the Reynold's markings. Then again, ,maybe Reynold's gave them a price break NOT to remove it. ?
D/P

[Jim Stettler]

I think the aluminum base sets were from a rebuilder.
They also made copy cat housings I don't recall the intials but it is three intials, I want to say TIE, but I don't think that is it. The intials were molded into the repro housings.
Jim

[Tim]

I think the aluminum base sets were from a rebuilder.
They also made copy cat housings I don't recall the intials but it is three intials, I want to say TIE, but I don't think that is it. The intials were molded into the repro housings.
Jim

I was wondering if it would have been some sort of rebuild as well, Jim.  Mainly because on the outside bottom of the phone,

"Made by
The North Electric MFG. Co.
Galion, OH"

is not there.

But, on the other hand the remains of the stamping that says Cycle Ringer is there....(I think it says 50, but the 5 is very hard to make out) As well as the October of '46 date on the inside that Jorge referenced.

[Jim Stettler]

Tim,

Does the housing seem to be bakelite or soft plastic?
I think all the repro housings were soft. Some North sets  had aluminum alloy bases, some had steel. The repro bases were straight aluminum and "seemed" different.

If the base "seems" different it is probably repro. The reynolds stamp makes me think it is repro base from a rebuilder.


These are just opinions, I havn't ever studied the North sets closely.
JMO,
Jim

[Dennis Markham]

Here's one of those knock-off's.  I recently worked on one.  They say Telephone Engineers on the back.

Paul F shows one here too:

http://www.paul-f.com/north.htm

[LarryInMichigan]

Dennis,

Is that "knock-off" phone built on a North (or North copy) base?  Mine is built on a 302 base.  The North base is larger than the 302.

Larry

[Tim]

Tim,

Does the housing seem to be bakelite or soft plastic?

It actually doesn't have the "Galion" or Galion knock off housing to it.  It is a Leich housing, so I believe it is a soft plastic.  It is definitely not bakelite.

[LarryInMichigan]

So is this base from one of the Leich AE80-style conversion phones?  The Leich shells are soft plastic.  Maybe Leich also made North-like bases to go with their housings.

Larry

[Tim]

Yes Larry, it is from the base of one of the conversions.

Good thought about Leich also making a base.  I had never thought of that.

[Jim Stettler]

Here's one of those knock-off's.  I recently worked on one.  They say Telephone Engineers on the back.

Paul F shows one here too:

http://www.paul-f.com/north.htm

That is the ones I was thinking of.
Jim