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The crown jewel of my collection! (1962 Spanish Payphone)

Started by Spanish_phones, November 23, 2013, 08:55:43 AM

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Spanish_phones

Here you are!!!!!   

I present you the best telephone of my collection! A 1962 Spanish payphone!!!

In USA, it's not to difficult to find payphones because it's a huge country and the telephone companies didn't destroyed them. But here in Spain, when CTNE (the Spanish telephone company) replaced the old payphones, they destroyed the old ones.

So, there are only a few survivors nowadays, and there are very expensive and in terrible condition.

Fortunately, I found one very cheap and complete, two months ago. I restored it and here are the results:

These are two videos ta ht i made of it just in the middles of the restoration process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_e6D0YtoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b4y_dZgDoI

And the last link, which is a old video of an original payphone in the booth: (min 0:34)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw8VHcsr-gc

I hope you enjoy it, and help me with the design of a controller! like the ones you have on your payphones

Sargeguy

That's a pretty cool phone-Nice job on the restoration!
Greg Sargeant
Providence, RI
TCI /ATCA #4409

Doug Rose

Beautiful phone. Show us more of your collection! Welcome to the Forum....Doug
Kidphone

Russ Kirk

- Russ Kirk
ATCA & TCI

Matilo Telephones

Very nice telephone. Love the way it turned out.

The first pics I saw were the lower ones. When I saw that white on black schematic, I thought hey, Standard Electric. BTM in Antwerp had such schematic.

And yes, there was the company badge and the European F1 handset.

Dit it come with these jetons, or did you have to hunt those down as well?
Groeten,

Arwin

Check out my telephone website: http://www.matilo.eu/?lang=en

And I am on facebook too: www.facebook.com/matilosvintagetelephones

WesternElectricBen

What a cool telephone, I like the fact it uses old coins and it still needs coins today, with out operating on a toll line.

Ben

Russ Kirk

Quote from: Russ Kirk on November 23, 2013, 11:12:19 AM
Wow! What a nice phone.

And welcome to the forum.

I like how you can see the coins. Reminds me of a slot machine.
- Russ Kirk
ATCA & TCI

Spanish_phones

Thank you for your comments!

I will post more Spanish and European phones, as well as USA phones  I have only a few :P)

Yes, is has the F1 handset, I think Standard Electric designed it and WE made the same handset after, starting with the 202 model. May be I'm wrong and was the opposite, European made after WE designed it :P

I will show you the complete diagram, half of it is in paper (white with black background) and the other half is in the inner gray plastic case.

The tokens used to be sell by the telephone company, they have little grooves as you can see.

Matilo, I don't understand what do you mean with jetons? Do you mean the tokens?

Matilo Telephones

Groeten,

Arwin

Check out my telephone website: http://www.matilo.eu/?lang=en

And I am on facebook too: www.facebook.com/matilosvintagetelephones

Spanish_phones

OK! I bought the tokens in a famous Spanish antique market: EL Rastro (in Madrid), and there were quite cheap. Lot of people have tokens, the difficult item is the payphone jijiji

I have a question about bakelite. How can I polish the handset at home without buying Novus or something similar? I tried with Titanlux (paint polish) and it shines a little bit, but not as good as other bakelite phones that I have. Any ideas?

Here are the wiring diagrams ;)

WesternElectricBen

#10
Inaki,

I use brown or black shoe polish and that usually does the trick. I know people have tried "Avon skin so soft," but I am yet to try that.

Ben

Matilo Telephones

Commandant no 4 followed by brasso copper polish.

I use Valma scratch remover first, if there is deeper damage and scratches.
Groeten,

Arwin

Check out my telephone website: http://www.matilo.eu/?lang=en

And I am on facebook too: www.facebook.com/matilosvintagetelephones

gpo706

Very interesting phone, I like it!

I've never seen a payphone that takes tokens only, was this standard in Spain?

All the UK/US payphones I recall take coins, did Spain convert to coin payphones hence why these token phones would have been redundant and scrapped?
"now this should take five minutes, where's me screwdriver went now..?"

Spanish_phones

Quote from: gpo706 on November 24, 2013, 12:26:27 PM
Very interesting phone, I like it!

I've never seen a payphone that takes tokens only, was this standard in Spain?

All the UK/US payphones I recall take coins, did Spain convert to coin payphones hence why these token phones would have been redundant and scrapped?

More or less :P At first, in late 50's and early 60's, payphones worked ONLY with tokens, but starting in the 70's I think, they started with another type of payphone, which was exactly the same as this one but painted in gray, and only accepted coins (pesetas), here is an example:

http://www.telefonosantiguos.es/478-1893-large/telefonos-antiguos-2201ab.jpg
http://pictures2.todocoleccion.net/tc/2012/09/24/33379765_120923.jpg

The coexisted, token and coin payphones, but when CTNE stopped producing rotary payphones and started changing the existing ones, they just simply destroyed the rotary ones.

G-Man

Quote from: Spanish_phones on November 24, 2013, 09:51:32 AM


Yes, is has the F1 handset, I think Standard Electric designed it and WE made the same handset after, starting with the 202 model. May be I'm wrong and was the opposite, European made after WE designed it :P

The contract for the Spanish telephone network was the reason for the struggling upstart ITT to negotiate their purchase of Western Electric International and Bell Telephone Manufacturing (BTM Belgium) with AT&T in 1925.

They felt that to be truly competitive they needed a captive manufacturer of their own; much like the Bell System's relationship with Western Electric.

They folded these operations into the Standard Electric group of companies.

As part of the purchase ITT had access to U.S. Western Electric's patents and product designs for a period of 50-years from the purchase date. That was about the time they purchased Kellogg to enter the U.S. market.

That is why much of their equipment often looked the same or similar to WECo products.