Autophon (UK) button set

[gpo706]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-RETRO-yellow-cream-colour-dial-phone-BARGAIN-/251080433353?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3a758f5ec9

No idea what this is...

[Owain]

It's just an ordinary phone.

Autophon were a south Wales-based telephone/technology company - in 1991 they became  or were taken over by the Swiss firm Ascom.

I think they also made the better known "Berkshire" series of phones.

The South Wales high-tech industry received a boost last week as Cardiff-based Autophon UK Ltd won a contract worth around UKP3m from British Telecommunications Plc to supply it with network terminating units and line cards to use on British Telecom's 64Kbps Kilostream service: Autophon will be shipping the units out at the rate of 1,000 a month to British Telecom, which will then make them available to customers - typically banks, travel agents and building societies.

http://www.cbronline.com/news/autophon_win_contract_from_british_telecommunications

If you want one, this item has llower P&P.

Autophon and Ascom phones at Bob Freshwater's site

[twocvbloke]

The handset looks like the K(?)-type handset that is used on a lot of modern 2500-type telephones over in the states, though looking at it, the phone looks like it's an evolution of the 2500, just one that isn't very common...

Though, one can't help but notice one problem on one of the keys.....