Where to find—
- auctioneers
- collectors' fairs
- dealers in old telephones
- parts to repair old phones
- dealers in original kiosks
- dealers in replica kiosks
- hard-to-find books on telephones and telegraphs
- kiosk parts
- manuals and diagrams
- models of telephone vans
- telegraph instruments
ACADEMY AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS, Northcote House, Northcote Avenue, Ealing, London, W5 3UR (020-8579 7466, fax 020-8579 0511). Occasional sales of old telephones, radio and TV equipment.
AUCTION TEAM KÖLN, Box 501119, D-50971 Köln, Germany (00 49 221 387049, fax 00 49 221 374878. Twice-yearly sales of 'Old Technology' and 'Office Antiques', with detailed illustrated catalogues captioned in German and English. UK agent (for catalogues and information): Robin Kahan, The Mill, Rimpton Road, Marston Magna, BA22 8DH (tel/fax 01935-851203).
BAKELITE FAIR, organised by the Bakelite Museum Society (020-8852 3492 and 01374-126670). Held in May at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, Sussex.
NATIONAL VINTAGE COMMUNICATIONS FAIR, organised by Jonathan Hill, 13 Belmont Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 2HF. Held twice annually in April/May and September/October at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham (tel: 01392-411565).
VINTAGE TECHNOLOGY, organised by John McGlynn and Brian Chesters, 173 Newton Drive, Blackpool, FY3 8ND (tel: 01253-30100 daytime; fax 01253-300020; e-mail brian@blackpool.net). Held in March and September at the De Vere Hotel and Leisure Centre, Blackpool.
For general antiques fairs where you may well strike good fortune and find old instruments see the national calendar of antique fairs at http://www.antiques-uk.co.uk/buy_in_britain/bib_fairs_frame.htm
Antiques fairs can be a good source of old telephones, although prices can be unrealistically high. It pays to arrive immediately the fair opens, while the dealers are still setting up and before they themselves have time to go looking for underpriced bargains on other stalls. There is often telephone equipment at amateur radio rallies (see Practical Wireless or Short Wave Magazine). Go along and you probably won't be disappointed. You may be lucky at normal car boot sales and memorabilia fairs.
ANCHOR SURPLUS, The Cattle Market, Nottingham, NG2 3GY (0115-986 4902, 864041, fax 0115-986 4667). Some ex-military telecomms (and radio) equipment from time to time.
ANTIQUE TELEPHONE COMPANY, 12 Caxton Hill, Hertford, SG13 7NE (01992-584650). Antique and reproduction phones.
BAKELITE TELEPHONES, Creech Farm, Southwick, Fareham, Hants., PO17 6HJ (01705-254275). Reconditioned phones.
William BATH 01202-434003 (shop), 01929-425338 (home), 020-8941 1687 (London). Dealing and collecting in telephones and other artefacts of the first half of the 20th century. Bakelite phones and kiosk equipment always wanted.
BILLARD’S OLD TELEPHONES, USA (business closed, owner deceased).
CANDLESTICK & BAKELITE (Martin Barnett), Box 308, Orpington, Kent, BR5 1TB (020-8467 3743). Selection of original old phones.
CARGILL TELEPHONE COMPANY (Cartelco), Box 1000, Cargill, Ontario, N0G 1J0, Canada (00 1 519-366 2249). Warehouse full of old phones and spares, mail order.
CHICAGO OLD TELEPHONE Co., 327 Carthage Street, Sanford, NC 27330, USA (00 1 919-774 6625 or 00 1 800-843 1320).
CLASSICFONES, Park Hall Exhibition Centre, Charnock Richard, Lancs. every Sunday (01254-263119 any time). Bakelite telephones.
DEJA-VU ANTIQUES, Hatters Row, Horsemarket Street, Warrington, Lancs.. (01925-232677). Reconditioned old phones.
John FERRIS, 01429-223922. Kiosk backboards, notice frames, notices and adverts, also cash tray locks.
GALERIE ALTE TECHNIK, Moltkestrasse 48, D-12202, Berlin (00 49 172-924 4013; fax 00 49 5421-1272). Telephones and telegraph items, also German radios.
Roger HARVEY, Stone Lodge, Deer Park, Milton Abbas, Blandford, Dorset, DT11 0AY. Telephones bought and sold, also invisible mending and restoration service for coloured bakelite telephones.
HOME & COLONIAL TELEPHONES, 17 Trinity Close, Great Burstead, CM11 2RZ. Tel/fax (01277) 631713. All early telephones bought, sold, restored and converted; send SAE for full information.
HOUSE OF TELEPHONES, 2677 East Valley Drive, San Angelo, TX 76903, USA (00 1 915-482 0101, fax 00 1 915-655 4177). Free catalogue of antique and reproduction phones, with large range of spare parts, cords,, etc.. Visa, Mastercard.
Marco LAUDANI, 716 Elgar Road, Doncaster, Vic 3108, Australia (00 61 3-9848 7518). VHS video tapes (PAL and NTSC) on telephone collecting.
Patrik LAUNO, Turin, Italy (tel/fax 00 39 11-669 2172). Specialist in rare European telephones.
MAHANTANGO MANOR INC., Box 170, Dalmatia, PA 17017, USA. Quality reproduction telephones and replacement parts.
METRO RETRO, 21 Canonbury Lane, London, N1 2AS (shop 020-7288 1086, enquiries tel/fax 01245-442047). ‘Deco’ phones and electric fans.
NEW WIRELESS PIONEERS. James and Felicia Kreuzer. Box 398, Elma, New York, NY 14059, USA (00 1 716-681 3186). Rare books on early telephones and telegraphs. Catalogues issued.
THE OLD TELEPHONE COMPANY, Battlesbridge Antiques Centre, The Old Granary, Battlesbridge, Wickford, Essex, SS11 7RE (01245-400601). Superbly restored phones. Website http://www.theoldtelephone.co.uk
ON THE AIR, The Highway, Hawarden, CH5 3DN (tel/fax 01244-530300). Deeside's unique vintage technology shop and repair workshop. Open Monday to Saturday 10.00 - 17.30 but ring before making a visit. http://www.vintageradio.co.uk
PHONECO, Box 70, 207 East Mill Road, Galesville, WI 54630, USA (00 1 608-582 4124, fax 00 1 608 582 4593). Legendary assembly of old telephones, more than the eye can possibly count. A 'must visit' place by all accounts. A 30-page colour catalogue is available featuring more than 85 different old phones as well as 45 modern ‘character’ instruments. Also in this comprehensive catalogue are pages of bellsets, braided cords of all descriptions, magnetos and spare handles, dials, switch-hooks, screws, escutcheons and so forth. A few items are reproductions or remanufactured; these are clearly marked. Prices are reasonable and a 20 per cent discount is available to dealers buying in quantity. Mail orders paid by credit card are welcomed. WWW page http://phonecoinc.com/, e-mail phonecoinc@aol.com
PT SUPPLY, Box 38, Pillow, PA 17080, USA (00 1 717-758 1706).
F.G. RICHARD, Marché; Vernaison, Allée no. 3, Stand 107 bis, 94300 St-Ouen, Paris (00 33 1-4011 2913 stall, 00 33 1-6459 9776 home). This stall is in the famous Vernaison flea market, close to the Porte de Clignancourt station on the Paris Metro. The market is lively on Saturdays and Sundays, pretty dead on other days; it is also the only flea market in Paris worth trawling for this kind of merchandise. You will also find other stalls with similar sorts of plunder.
Laurence RUDOLF, London (020-8446 4983). Telephones and red telephone kiosk spares for sale. Items also purchased.
RUPERT's VINTAGE WIRELESS (01243-788763). Ealing shop now closed but still trading in retirement; mainly radio but usually some telephones as well.
SCIENTIFIC & MEDICAL ANTIQUES, P.O. Box 4252, London, SW20 0XS (020-8946 1470, fax 020-8944 7961). Sales stand at Portobello Antiques Market (Units 12-13 downstairs), 282 Westbourne Grove, London W11. Open Saturday from 09.00-13.00 or by appointment. Induction coils, telegraphs, galvanometers, X-ray tubes, Wimshurst and electrostatic apparatus, early wireless, books and other electrical antiques.
STUDIO SAV, 17 Bell Street, London, NW1 (020-7258 3448). Some telephones, also 1930s-1960s vintage hi-fi and wireless, buy/sell, repairs.
TELEPHONE ENGINEERING, Simpson, PA 18407, USA (00 1 717-282 5100).
TELEPHONE LINES Ltd, High Street, Cheltenham, GL50 3JF (01242-583699, fax 01242-690033). Wide range of antique and reproduction phones, plus reproduction plaited cords. Website at http://www.telephonelines.net
TRADITIONAL TELEPHONES - Quay Antiques Centre (top floor), Topsham, Exeter, Devon. Telephone (01752) 845188. Large selection of restored old telephones, usual and unusual. The centre is on the quayside next to the car park and is open seven days a week from 10.00 to 17.00. www.traditionaltelephones.co.uk
WHEELS, Platform 5, Nuneaton railway station, Nuneaton, CV11 4BU (024-7634 2556). Collectable antique Bakelite telephones, many original British Railways phones. Website at http://www.wheels.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop/agora.cgi?product=c_tp
WOMAN & WIRELESS WORLD. Specialise in vintage wireless sales, repairs and advice. Also telephones, small Bakelite collectables. Showroom at Knutsford. Cheshire, open seven days. Claire Dufton. Heritage Antiques. 8 King Street. Knutsford. Cheshire, and Dagfields Centre. Wore, South Cheshire. Telephone (01606-834140).
Ernie WOODWARD. No longer trading.
SPARE PARTS plus REPAIR AND RESTORATION SERVICES
CARGILL TELEPHONE COMPANY (Cartelco), Box 1000, Cargill, Ontario, N0G 1J0, Canada (00 1 519-366 2249). Warehouse full of old phones and spares, mail order.
Tony FALZON, 7 Kilbreck Street, Benowa Waters, Qld 4217, Australia (00 61 7-5539 3097, fax 00 61 7-5539 3269, e-mail tice@bigpond.com ). Reproduction transfers for Swedish Ericsson and British Western Electric telephones, various prices. Plus sheet of company names as they appear on old telephones, including Automatic Electric, Peel Conner, Stromberg-Carlson, Ericsson, Kellogg, Western Electric, Siemens Brothers, etc. $Aus18.00 per set plus postage.
HOUSE OF TELEPHONES, 2677 East Valley Drive, San Angelo, TX 76903, USA (00 1 915-482 0101, fax 00 1 915-655 4177). Free catalogue of antique and reproduction phones, with large range of spare parts, cords,, etc.. Visa, Mastercard.
Geoff JULL, 20 Valley Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand (tel/fax: 00 64 9-478 5161). Accurate reproduction metal parts finished in nickel plate or polished brass: nuts, cradles, tear drops and pegs for repairing Ericsson skeleton telephones. Also turned wooden handles for early Ericsson spoon receivers.
John LaROSE (USA) can make new shells and caps—if you send him the broken originals. He is at 00 1-802 479-9223. [Information from Walt Aydelotte waydelotte@earthlink.net, 00 1-716 385-1327]
Laurie MANGLESON, 82 Griffin Parade, Illawong, NSW 2234, Australia (fax 00 61 2-9543 0658). Accurate reproduction parts for British, Australian and American telephones, including transmitters, receivers, mouthpieces, wooden writing slopes, switchhook forks and transmitter mounts.
Roger NEWELL (USA) repairs receivers and can be reached at 00 1-785 823-6248.[Information from Walt Aydelotte waydelotte@earthlink.net, 00 1-716 385-1327]
THE OLD TELEPHONE COMPANY, Battlesbridge Antiques Centre, The Old Granary, Battlesbridge, Wickford, Essex, SS11 7RE (01245-400601). Some spares, see website http://www.theoldtelephone.co.uk
PHONECO, Box 70, 207 East Mill Road, Galesville, WI 54630, USA (00 1 608-582 4124, fax 00 1 608 582 4593). Legendary assembly of old telephones, more than the eye can possibly count. A 'must visit' place by all accounts. A 30-page colour catalogue is available featuring more than 85 different old phones as well as 45 modern ‘character’ instruments. Also in this comprehensive catalogue are pages of bellsets, braided cords of all descriptions, magnetos and spare handles, dials, switch-hooks, screws, escutcheons and so forth. A few items are reproductions or remanufactured; these are clearly marked. Prices are reasonable and a 20 per cent discount is available to dealers buying in quantity. Mail orders paid by credit card are welcomed. WWW page http://phonecoinc.com/ , e-mail phonecoinc@aol.com
Liz SHELTON, 15/126 Frasers Road, Mitchelton, Qld. 4053 Australia, (00 61 7-3355 0522, email: jande@smartchat.net.au ). Reproduction twisted receiver cords and three, four and six-conductor plaited cords for telephones in tan, black, green, white and red. Formerly sold by Jill Lee, who has now passed this business to Liz Shelton.
TELEPHONE LINES Ltd, 304 High Street, Cheltenham, GL50 3JF (01242-583699, fax 01242-690033, http://www.telephonelines.net , e-mail enquiries@telephonelines.net ). All manner of spare parts, plus reproduction plaited cords (see website or send wants list).
Rick UNWIN, 18 Ulaka Road, Ingle Farm, SA, 5098, Australia (00 61 8-396 1740). Reproduction parts for Swedish Ericsson phones. Walnut crowns and metal keyhole escutcheons.
Brian WHITLEY, 730 Awapuni Road, Gisborne RD1, Gisborne, New Zealand (00 64 6-868 6495, fax 00 64 6-868 7394). Parts for Ericsson wooden wall phones, including lightning arresters, bell gong nuts, line connection terminals at top of phone.
Arthur WILLIAMS, 26 Centre Street, Invercargill, New Zealand (00 64 3-216 8985, e-mail arvwilliams@xtra.co.nz ). Reproduction wood parts for old telephones including scroll-top crests, handset grips, ear caps, button feet and writing slopes.
A & B UNICORN KIOSK RESTORATIONS, Merstham, near Redhill, Surrey. Our Postal Address, to which all enquiries should be addressed is PO BOX 866, SOUTH CROYDON, SURREY, CR2 7SY. Telephone: (020) 8651 2436 FAX: (020) 8651 5882, e-mail enquiries@unicornkiosks.com, website http://www.unicornkiosks.com Contacts:- Reg Lewis, Victoria or Tony. 9-00am to 5-00pm Monday to Friday and by appointment at any other time.
Reg Lewis writes " For your members’ information, we supply and restore Telephone Kiosks and other items of Cast Iron Street Furniture together with most Kiosk Components from the K2 to the K8, Kiosk Models, Kiosk Interiors, Bakelite Telephones, A & B Boxes, Period Payphones, Post Boxes, Lamp Columns, Street Signs and Cast Benches. Hire to the Film & TV Industries is also a speciality."
"We are a Quality Assured Company registered with NQA to comply with BS EN ISO 9002, and have carried out many prestigious restorations for BT, Local Authorities, Museums and Town Twinning Associations. We are closely associated to the National Kiosk Collection at Avoncroft (one of the original sponsors) and have recently helped by supplying new castings for the A.A. Box project." [They also sell superb reproductions of old kiosk posters and notices.]
BRITISH NOSTALGIA-European offices, British Nostalgia, Les Caches, St. Martins, Guernsey, Channel Islands, Great Britain, GY4 6PH. Telephone: (01481) 35656. Dealers in all shapes and sizes of staircases, old timber fireplaces, chimney pots, all kinds of architectural features, British letter boxes and telephone kiosks for shipment world-wide. Find them on-line at http://www.british-nostalgia.com/ and look in the 'Warehouse'.
BRITISH TELECOM. The company has no stocks of red telephone kiosks for sale.
FURNACE END FIRES, Ersthaus, Atherstone Road, Furnace End, Birmingham B46 2LP (e-mail info@fefbadges.com, website www.fefbadges.com ). This comapny sells ex-GPO/Royal Mail post boxes and associated equipment and collectables. Contact for lists and availability by email or in writing with sae stating interest. Also suppliers of collectable enamelled badges including ranges of real ale breweries, nostalgic street furniture (post boxes, telephone boxes, RAC, AA, etc), nostalgic ddvertising and traction engines.
GLEN CALL INTERNATIONAL, Scotland, Tel: (01592) 840853, Fax: (01592) 840853 e-mail glencall@argonet.co.uk Suppliers of telephone kiosks, letter boxes and other novelty items. Web site at http://www.argonet.co.uk/glencall/
MACHAN ENGINEERING, 103 Broad Street, Denny, Stirlingshire, FK6 6EL. (01324) 824309. Contact: Mr W. McMullan.
SALVOWEB (http://www.salvoweb.com) has information about dealers in architectural and garden antiques, which include old K6 phone boxes, pillar boxes, wall-mounted and post-mounted post boxes. Ford Village, Berwick TD15 2QG, telephone: (01890) 820333, fax (01890) 820499.
WHITE CONTRACTS, Fyfield Hall, Fyfield, Ongar, Essex, CM5 OSA. (01277) 899495, fax (01277) 899613. Contact: Mr W. White or check out http://www.netforce.co.uk/whitecon/
Note: kiosk dealers tend to come and go, and it is always worth looking in Exchange & Mart for new traders. This listing here includes the longer established names in the business.
DEALERS, KIOSKS, GLASS FIBRE REPLICA
GLEN CALL INTERNATIONAL, Scotland, Tel: (01592) 840853, Fax: (01592) 840853 e-mail glencall@argonet.co.uk . See web page at http://www.argonet.co.uk/glencall/1gi/pill.html
A & B UNICORN KIOSK RESTORATIONS, Merstham, near Redhill, Surrey. Our Postal Address, to which all enquiries should be addressed is PO BOX 866, SOUTH CROYDON, SURREY, CR2 7SY. Telephone: (020) 8651 2436 FAX: (020) 8651 5882, e-mail reg@unicornkiosk.demon.co.uk Contacts:- Reg Lewis, Victoria or Tony. 9-00am to 5-00pm Monday to Friday and by appointment at any other time.
John FERRIS, Hartlepool. (01429) 223922. Kiosk backboards, notice frames, notices and adverts, also cash tray locks.
Mike SHORES, Dale House, Carlton Miniott, Thirsk, Yorks. Tel/fax (01845) 522381. Phone kiosks, internal fittings and letter boxes.
Roxley Models specialise in models of postal and telephone vans, from all over the world. If you'd like a free copy of their list send a first-class stamp and your name and address to Roxley Models, 4 Beckley Parade, Great Bookham, Surrey, KT23 4RQ. Telephone 01372-452976, e-mail roxmod@aol.com . Website http://www.roxleymodels.co.uk
Old telephones and telegraph instruments
All British Post Office telephone and telegraph instruments were wired to standard circuits, which were printed in reference books. Up to the first decade of this century these were in hardback pocket-books— first a combined telegraph and telephone book, then separate issues for telephones and telegraphs (red for telephones, black for telegraphs; up to 1912 the separate National Telephone Company also produced a similar book).
As the number of diagrams proliferated, they were produced in loose leaf form, the most common being the N series of telephone circuits (universally known as N Diagrams). These are easy to obtain, either second-hand at swapmeets or as photocopies from the Telecomms Heritage Group (members only, see website for membership details). An alternative source is the British Telecom archives centre in London (Third Floor, Holborn Telephone Exchange, 268-270 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7ED (020-7492 8792, fax 020-7242 1967). Open 10.00-16.00 Monday to Friday except public holidays), although the cost of photocopies is higher.
Another place to find circuits of telephones and telegraphs is in text books. The standard books on the subject, such as Herbert's Telegraphy, Herbert and Procter's Telephony and Atkinson's Telephony are all generously provided with diagrams of the most common instruments, whilst older books on the subject (and general electrical works too) frequently have circuit diagrams. Failing this, the Telecomms Heritage Group has good library resources and a letter to its magazine may well produce results, although it helps to be a member.
For telephones made outside the UK, books are the first place to look as well. Ralph Meyer's book Old Time Telephones (by Ralph O. Meyer. Published by Tab Books at £16.95. ISBN 0-07-041818-7) covers all commonly used American telephones and many of these were exported to Europe and the rest of the world (or made under licence there). In other countries there are standard textbooks on telecommunications in which you will find circuit diagrams, and these books will be found in libraries there. There are also telephone museums and collectors' societies around the world which should be able to help if approached in the right fashion. They are all listed later in this book and you should not be too surprised if some say their resources are for members only; you will undoubtedly benefit from becoming a member.
Current and recent call connect systems
Telecom Consultants Ltd on (0161) 442 2202 can supply copies of manuals for these and virtually all other post-1980 PABXs and key systems. The price is commercial but competitive, around £15 a manual, and they also supply all spares as well as complete second-user systems. The company is run as a commercial business and trades with businesslike people only; anyone giving the impression of being a hobbyist will be turned away. Fair warning! Malcolm Percival, Telephone Lines Ltd, 304 High Street, Cheltenham, GL50 3JF on (01242) 583699, fax (01242) 690033 will also try and help in this direction and he says he is far cheaper than Telecom Consultants Ltd.
Teleprinters
Manuals for Creed and military teleprinters are supplied by Les Thompson, 12 Long Street, Great Gonerby, Grantham, NG31 8LN.
The British Amateur Radio Teledata Group (BARTG) may well be able to help as well.
ANTIQUES OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (Jim and Rhoda Morris), Box 1852, Wakefield, MA 01880, USA (+1 617 245 2897, fax +1 617 245 3572). Old telegraph instruments.
Martin FULLER, East Cottage, 2 Sandy Lane, Weston, ST18 0HR (01889-270746). Repair service for railway block instruments, including fabrication of missing parts, lathework, carpentry.
Bruce MORRIS, 62 Gerllan, Tywyn, Gwynedd, LL36 9DE. Sells tape entitled '500kHz - The End Is Nigh!', a unique record of the final morse transmissions by coast radio stations worldwide.
F.G. RICHARD, Marché; Vernaison, Allée no. 3, Stand 107 bis, 94300 St-Ouen, Paris (00 33 1-4011 2913 stall, 00 33 1-6459 9776 home). This stall is in the famous Vernaison flea market, close to the Porte de Clignancourt station on the Paris Metro. The market is lively on Saturdays and Sundays, pretty dead on other days; it is also the only flea market in Paris worth trawling for this kind of merchandise. You will also find other stalls with similar sorts of plunder.
SCIENTIFIC & MEDICAL ANTIQUES, P.O. Box 4252, London, SW20 0XS (020-8946 1470, fax 020-8944 7961). Sales stand at Portobello Antiques Market (Units 12-13 downstairs), 282 Westbourne Grove, London W11. Open Saturday from 09.00-13.00 or by appointment. Induction coils, telegraphs, galvanometers, X-ray tubes, Wimshurst and electrostatic apparatus, early wireless, books and other electrical antiques.
One of the best ways of tracing hard-to-find books is on the Internet, through http://www.bookfinder.com and http://www.addall.com .
Beyond this, people despairing of ever finding a copy of Kingsbury’s The Telephone and Telephone Exchange at a reasonable price will be refreshed to know they can now have a copy for about £30. No need to fight for it either since an enterprising company in the USA has reprinted it along with a huge number of other technical books.
These are in fact facsimile reprints intended for libraries, so they are hardback books, printed on good quality paper. I have bought two of them and the print quality is superb. The only thing that's slightly disappointing is the half-tones but text and line art drawings are superb.
You can order by post, fax or off their website (http://www.scry.com/ayer/telecomm/title00.htm) and the presumably subsidised surface mail charges are extremely reasonable. By quoting the ISBN you can probably order through Amazon.com or your local bookshop but prices might be higher. Full details are shown on the website but here is a summary of titles and prices. The dates given are those of original publication.
THE BELL TELEPHONE: The Deposition of Alexander Graham Bell in the Suit by the United States to Annul the Bell Patents. Boston, 1908. ISBN: 0405060327, $36.95
Bennett, A. R.: THE TELEPHONE SYSTEMS OF THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE. 1895; and Webb, Herbert Laws: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TELEPHONE IN EUROPE. 1910. In one volume - the development of European telephone networks near the turn-of-the-century plus a comparative study fifteen years later. ISBN: 0405060335. Two volumes in one $40.95
Du Moncel, Count [Theodore, A. L.]: THE TELEPHONE, THE MICROPHONE AND THE PHONOGRAPH. The first English edition of a work originally published in Paris in 1878, this is one of the earliest studies of the telephone, the microphone and the phonograph in a single volume. New York, 1879. ISBN: 0405060394, $25.95
Kingsbury, John E.: THE TELEPHONE AND TELEPHONE EXCHANGES: Their Invention and Development. ISBN: 0405047096 $44.95
Prescott, George Bartlett: BELL’S ELECTRIC SPEAKING TELEPHONE: Its Invention, Construction, Application, Modification and History, 1884. ISBN: 0405047185, $42.95
Rhodes, Frederick Leland: BEGINNINGS OF TELEPHONY, with a Foreword by General John J. Carty. The standard work on the successful implementation of the Bell telephone and the corporate research and business structure built upon it. New York and London, 1929. ISBN: 0405060572, $28.95
Ayer Company Publishers, 1 Lower Mill Road, N Stratford, NH 03590, USA. Phone: 00 1 888-267 7323, fax 00 1 603-922 3348.