Northern Electric 151AL. What is it?

[tallguy58]

Hi Jack, thanks for the info. DavePEI pretty much told me the same thing about the AE dials.

NE was putting together anything they could get their hands on to supply the demand for dial phones.

Hey Jack, this guy's real name is the same as yours.  Book'em, Danno.......Aloha!   

[Jack Ryan]

Thanks for the welcome.

Yes, many countries had high import duty to encourage local manufacture. In this case I think that if there were a temporary shortage it would have been cheaper to import from WE and incur the high tariff than to increase local capacity of NE equipment.

Jack

[Jack Ryan]

NE was putting together anything they could get their hands on to supply the demand for dial phones.

The N dials and the agreement with AE were not the result of a grab for parts. NE wanted to supply auto equipment and WE was too slow for it. NE formed an agreement with AE and began to manufacture telephones and dials based upon AE patents. The NE 20-UN, a step based dial candlestick was the equivalent of AE's step based candlestick.

The original NE 293 was even the right way up (transmitter above dial).

(I tried to get Jack Lord to pay royalties but he refused...)

Jack

[Contempra]

Welcome to this forum Jack Ryan.