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Nice pictures! Thanks CJ!
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Awesome, you have been v
Busy finding those.. Thanks!
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Great Pics! Thanks for posting them!
Looks like the guys in picture 2 should contact the guys in picture 3 or 4. Cool telephone tanks!
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I didn't get the truck, but I got myself this old spot light from a Bell Truck today. It even came with the switch for the dashboard.
Landrovers:
Green livery:
Yellow livery:
British Telecom. Grey 'Piper' livery:
Piper logo revamp; 'warmer tones'.
Not quite warm enough.
Too warm.
Man and van. Yellow livery:
A Bell car in front of the CO in London, Ontario, Canada in 1949.
Men at work.
Bell van.
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That would be a very cool piece to have in one's collection. Anybody know if one of those vans still exists?
You could do car shows and telephone shows with it!
Linesmen and their truck.
Bell winter snow truck.
GPO.
ST. Thomas Ontario Parade Bell Truck Oct 1934
1940's Bell System Ad.
Taken at Barrett Jackson Auction Scottsdale, AZ 2018
Nice looking truck. Is that a correct color for it? I only remember seeing the dark green telephone trucks around the time of that truck.
The color looks correct to me. It is the Bell System Blue-Grey that proceeded the Bell System Grey-Green that they switched to around 1960.
Long ago, my father brought home a few cans of the Bell System Blue-Grey touch-up paint that they were throwing out, after all the old trucks had been replaced. He used it to repaint the peeling fake wood on the sides of his Rambler station wagon.
In a web search, I stumbled on a place you can order touch-up paint for the grey-green (but not the blue-grey):
https://www.paintscratch.com/touch_up_paint/Dodge/1959-Dodge-Trucks-Bell-System-Green-1641-1959.html
French trucks.
Western Electric.
Mobile Exchange. GPO. BT.
New Jersey. Pacific. Bell.
Thanks for the thread CJ. I like truck & telephones, so this it the perfect thread for me😀
Quote from: oldguy on February 06, 2021, 11:04:11 PM
Thanks for the thread CJ. I like truck & telephones, so this it the perfect thread for me😀
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This next one is fun. Spares or Repairs.
(Or perfect as is, as a piece of art for the garage or phone room).
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The door, used in the properly displayed, would be a good piece to have.
Without seeing a little more of the front end I can't get closer than 1955-59 Chevy.
Reminds me of the Corvair Phone Truck I had a while back. Same color, different logo.
Employees and friends/family/customers?
Bell trucks.
That truck box looks like Dave PEI's.
Nice old Bell Telephone truck.
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Bell vehicle and Bell employee.
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Did anyone notice that last image was a right hand drive Bell truck, parked up outside a Bell Telephone Business Office (close up view below).
'... founded in 1883 in London as International Western Electric by Western Electric, shortly after becoming the telephone equipment supplier for the Bell System in the United States.
In 1925, Western Electric divested itself of all foreign operations... the buyer was the infant ITT Corporation... ITT renamed its new UK operation Standard Telephones and Cables.'
Shucks, now I feel guilty.
My first job (in the mid-1960s) was working at a low end used car lot in the DC/Baltimore area. I was associated with that lot for several years as both my brothers worked there on and off too. We sold cars for "$49 and Up".
During one period in the late '60s we were the go-to place for all the hippies to find low-cost vans. We would purchase used up C&P Telephone Ford Econoline vans at auction, pull the storage units out of them and sell them...a really nice one might go for $500!
We sold one to a band from Canada whose old van had quit. They wanted the cheapest running van on the lot. We advised them against it, but that was all they could afford. - They stopped by the next year to thank us, as that van had taken them down the east coast, through to New Orleans, back to Canada, and they were doing it again! All in that $350 used up van. We were very surprised, but pleased!
But now, it would be great to have one of those many vans just as we received it from C&P!
Guilty As Charged,
Nick
Looks like they had to move a bit of snow for this photo. :o
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Wow! I love that one!
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On Craig's List CT
Monochrome photos; trucks and workers.
Providence Telephone Co. 1914
A team of three, wagon and driver. That's a heavy load. Bless.
Mid century Post Office Telephones trucks.
I remember the type of Royal Mail van in the last picture quite well....from the 60s and maybe into the early 70s.
I think it's a Morris J Type.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Commercial_J-type
Bell Canada service truck (after a collision).
Bell Canada utility truck (in flames).
Now there's an interesting twist. Phone trucks wrecked or on fire.
Do hope no one was injured in either case.
Vanity being delivered. That's a nice carriage there
What a wonder that must've been!
Imagine finding a vanity like that now, that just came off the wagon. That would be a dream.
I'd bet a person handy with woodcraft could make a good reproduction.
Quote from: 19and41 on August 11, 2021, 06:31:34 PM
I'd bet a person handy with woodcraft could make a good reproduction.
I would agree.
Most of the nice WE vanities in the hands of collectors have a few nice repro parts in them.
Some of the early collectors would have 1-2 extra repro parts made, they would sell the spare repro parts to other collectors to offset the cost of having the part created.
Many times the wood parts were made with very old wood to match grain characteristics.
JIm
Post Office Telephones truck.
Interesting mock up of Telephone Poles to top of the (advertising) van on the second image inviting potential subscribers to 'Come On The Telephone'. C 1934.
Bell trucks.
Quote from: Key2871 on August 11, 2021, 09:53:02 AM
Now there's an interesting twist. Phone trucks wrecked or on fire...
Came across a few more.
These on fire...
Some vehicles just can't tolerate sitting idling for hours on end. :D
Yes sitting idle they tend to get very hot.
The proof is in the pictures.
Barbados Telephone Co Ltd
Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company
Bell Telephone
Instrument Wagon
Bell truck, Linesmen.
Bell trucks.
Image 1, 1928.
Image 2, see second truck above.
Two more images.
The first image sneaked in because it has some great model Candlesticks to rear.
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Not very old, but very dented telephone trucks. :(
Bell workers and their trucks.
Bell cable trucks.
Old PTT trucks (France).
BT Snow Trucks
The Ohio Bell Telephone Company.
Bell truck.
c1920s.
Michigan Bell linesman digs a hole for a new telephone pole.
1958.
Michigan Bell, telephone service truck.
March 1958
Trash Van's humble beginnings were as a West Coast Pacific Bell service truck.
Bell Canada.