WE "Carafe" Prototype
F-54523| (What's this copyright
notice?) |
This model was used in Field Trials in about 1962 (shortly after the introduction of the Princess sets in 1959), but was never produced in volume.
The photo is from a set that was auctioned in 2000.
The dial appears to be like the production Trimline #10 dial, with the moving fingerstop to reduce dial size.
The dial mount swivels in all directions.
Handset is a standard G1.
Note the vents at the bottom for the ringer sound.
Uses a 4010 network.
The dial rotates on its mount to allow adjustment to many angles and positions There is a plastic switchhook tongue and a heavily nickeled handset cradle and mount.
There is a P1 type ringer with an adjustment wheel that extends through the base to control ringer volume. The ringer is marked F54523 6-62.
The Carafe was designed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and produced in the Western Electric model shop at the Indianapolis Works.
At the time it was in field trial by the New England Telephone Company.
(Thanks to Jeremy Walters for this info.)
