its a Gray Area.....

[Babybearjs]

OK.... heres todays question.... did WE, SC, and ITT ever off any phone in Olive Gray? (-49)? or were all the gray sets only made in the Light Gray? (-51)

[rdelius]

I am not sure what olive grey looks like but SC did make 1575 sets in a dark grey and I have seen Kellogg g type handsets in dark grey

[poplar1]

Western Electric gray telephones:

-5 ("dash 5") -- B1 and D1 handset mountings

-52 Oxford gray             -- 500 series (1953-1957)

-61 Light Gray (1957-1978)

-265 Ultra Light Gray (1990s remanufactured 500s)

-293     Slate Blue             (1990s remanufactured Princess sets )

[SUnset2]

I have a Kellogg 554 in dark gray, but it is a Select-O-Phone version.,

[Babybearjs]

Interesting! how about in a multi line version?

[andre_janew]

I've never heard of olive gray.  However, I have heard of olive drab.  Perhaps that's the color you're thinking of.

[countryman]

I never knew grey is spelled GRAY in American English, but that's the way it is 

[Payphone installer]

Kellogg made 500 and 554 in every color that W/E did. I used to have a bunch they are beyond impossible to find. It is possible they made key sets I am sure.

[compubit]

I thought Light Olive Gray (-49) was used for terminal boxes, connecting blocks, etc. I haven't seen nor heard of any phone devices themselves in those colors....

Jim

[Jim Stettler]

Kellogg made 500 and 554 in every color that W/E did. I used to have a bunch they are beyond impossible to find. It is possible they made key sets I am sure.

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/kellogg-book1.html
page 12 shows the colors for Kellogg 500's . They made some colors that WE did not.
I have a clear Kellogg key set, and I have heard of clear Kellogg 500's.
Here is a clear Kellogg key set (not mine). Mine is pretty much the same.
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=1928.msg164431#msg164431

Jim
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=1928.msg164431#msg164431

[compubit]

For the most part, didn't Kellogg's colors map to Western Electric, save turquoise, which was more of a true turquoise (whereas WE's was more of a light turquoise)...

I'll get a pic in the morning.

[Babybearjs]

well, I noticed in the WE "Phone Book" that there is no listing for a Lt. Gray in Rotary, but is listed as a 3568THM-61. (Comcode 10255556 and then shows up as a 569NBM-61, Comcode 10243293) Mine is a 564-61 (could have been a 565-61) yet no reference to a lt. Gray in that model.