One Old Black on Chrome Automatic Electric 3-Slot Payphone with Three Inch Dial

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One Old Black on Chrome Automatic Electric 3-Slot Payphone with Three Inch Dial  -   As was used from 1920 to 1925 and beyond. 1920 was the first use of a dial in payphones. In 1925 or 1926 the addition of a 4” porcelain (also called “baked enamel”) number plate became standard equipment. This phone has an old chromed bottom. An electric/electronic network is installed but not used such that the phone doesn't talk – listen nor dial out (non-working). We can do this for additional if you want. It appears to have the original switch hook and other inside equipment. I didn't try the coins so success in their travel into the vault is unknown. The chute in the bottom is of the older style. Has a snap-in crummy thin aluminum 1987 door.
Doors for Payphones
: Recognizing in April 2021 the need for a conservative approach for doors, locks and a key, I began thoughts on what to do.
About old doors
: If you are discriminating about them let us know. If you want to lock the vault for any reason, we need to know, and to discuss your options. Click on our profile for information. To have an old door with original lock would be to have a Northern Electric – Western Electric style (I call N.E. “Canadian Western Electric “ since they are so much the same) and were began with the help of Western Electric or/and Bell engineers) and would cost additionally. One of the challenges we face is that seldom, the Automatic Electric and Western doors don't always fit in good, interchangeably wise; there's a little snag in each one fitting the other well. I don't know much more than that about any of this.
Old doors without locks or with locks absent keys
: We can put a spring on the back side and hook it inside the vault. additionally.
Repro Doors
: Thick flat aluminum doors, I may need to get more of these made. But I can't make old doors; and I don't know where to buy them; and at 85, not terribly concerned (in April 2021). The thick flat aluminum doors we can “glue” a wood block on to the inside of it and hook the spring inside the vault. We'll probably keep using these in chrome payphones unless you say something.