Northern Electric Dial

[poplar1]

Is this a 706A receiver with HA1 receiver unit. Can you show inside?

Normally, the 706A takes a cap with the same threads as the receiver cap on an F1-type handset, but the cap has a special hill-and-dale design so that the howler tone from the Central Office can be heard if the subscriber leaves the receiver off hook and in a vertical position.

The later NE 706A receiver had the same cap as an F1 handset. ( I got two NOS in the box around 1973.) Norm Frost of NE (and member of the Toronto-based Telephony Society collectors club) made the decision to stop production of the 706A circa 1974.

The transmitter cap from an F1 hs. will fit on a 143 or 144 receiver. Old antique dealer trick -- for looks only -- what some call a "marriage."

[MMikeJBenN27]

Never knew that NE had a dial like that.

Mike

[Doug Rose]

Is this a 706A receiver with HA1 receiver unit. Can you show inside?

Normally, the 706A takes a cap with the same threads as the receiver cap on an F1-type handset, but the cap has a special hill-and-dale design so that the howler tone from the Central Office can be heard if the subscriber leaves the receiver off hook and in a vertical position.

The later NE 706A receiver had the same cap as an F1 handset. ( I got two NOS in the box around 1973.) Norm Frost of NE (and member of the Toronto-based Telephony Society collectors club) made the decision to stop production of the 706A circa 1974.

The transmitter cap from an F1 hs. will fit on a 143 or 144 receiver. Old antique dealer trick -- for looks only -- what some call a "marriage."

David....I felt the cap was wrong, as it looks like a transmitter cap, BUT a normal WE receiver cap for a 706A gives a couple of spins and seizes badly. It was a (expletive deleted) to get it off....Doug