This is a pretty interesting ebay item. It looks like a telephone model for children; showing how to build a phone! It also looks like it shows how a phone works. This is a first for me!
http://m.ebay.com/itm/311427174180
I saw that and the manual was published in 1953. I guess I'm not the only one who didn't realize such a teaching aid existed! If such a teaching aid were around today, I imagine it would have a touch tone dial instead of a rotary dial.
This wasn't a teaching aid like a teletrainer, it was to assemble a phone in a classroom. You built a working phone from the parts included. Very nice, I had one that I ran out of room with a few years ago....Doug
Somehow the lamp cord (zip cord) does not seem like something any Bell System company would include in anything, be it a trainer or whatever. I could be wrong, but I'm just saying...
Doug, did yours have that kind of cord on it?
Bill....it had line cord that you would screw in to the correct terminals. There must have been a "teletrainer" type base set that it wired into so the kids could call the others in the class...Doug