I am also trying to set up another Abdy Antique Telephone profile at LinkedIn about Vintage GPO Telephones. I also have a yahoo member area about Old British Bakelite Telephones .
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
My Hobby (first post)
As a hobby I restore and renovate old British antique phones. I have a range of these vintage / antique phones, primarily GPO (General Post Office) phones dating from the 1920's to the 1970's. I limit myself so that I only collect genuine British Telephones. I have sympathetically converted these old phones so that they will still function properly when connected to a modern BT telephone exchange line. I do not believe the conversion of these Bakelite GPO Telephones diminishes their value, because I do not remove any of the original components, I just service and adjust them and only add a small number of electrical components that can be easily removed later if needed. I also have my own antique telephone Facebook site at Old Antique & Vintage Telephones . I also convert and restore these old telephones for other people.
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Fix for a Slow dial on 746 Telephones and 706 Telephones
Vintage 746 telephone and 706 telephone dials are lovely high quality mechanical devices (similar in many ways to antique clocks) however be...
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This is an explanation of how to physically fit, or safely remove British 1960's (model No 711) or 1970's-1980's (model 741) v... -
Several people have asked me for more detailed instructions about how to convert a British 332 Bakelite telephone (with a picture). 90% of t... -
The British 1960's 706 and 1970's/80's 746 telephones were made to last. I believe they were the last UK telephones that were de...