Western Electric Metal Wall Phone - Black

This Western Electric Metal Wall Phone is built with components from the 1930s, and it includes all the parts required for operation, including the ringer, in a single cabinet.

The Restoration Process

Dial – The dial has been fully disassembled, cleaned, lubed and timed to ensure years of trouble free service. The outer edge of the dial has been stripped and repainted with a gloss black enamel. The number plate has been cleaned and a perfectly matching overlay has been applied. The finger wheel has been sandblasted and powder coated with a semi-gloss black finish. A brand new die cut dial card and acetate cover have been added as well

Cords – The phone has been outfitted with brand new brown cloth covered cords that are made in house on the same type of equipment originally used by the phone companies. They look amazing. The line cord has a modular connection to facilitate a modern connection to your wall jack.

Shell – The body has been stripped down and sandblasted using a glass grit and powder coated in a semi-gloss black finish. This closely resembles the finish on the original 533.

Receiver & Mouthpiece – The mouthpiece has been ultrasonically cleaned to get all embedded debris out. It is then sanded through a multi-step restoration process which includes sanding with 400, 800, 1000, 2000 grit and buffed back to its beautiful original shine.  We have also outfitted this phone with a reproduction receiver with a modern receiver element to provide optimal performance.

As an option, you can purchase this phone with an Audio Point control box.Let visitors dial up the past with our programmable period telephones. Utilising a specially designed control box (and a little customisation) we turn working period phones and replicas into an intriguing audio point.

97 Playable Audio Tracks

The new ‘control box’ can be connected to any working phone with a modular connection, playing up to 97 dialable audio clips from an easily programmed MicroSD Card in .mp3 format. It boasts a number of setting options and the ability to connect a PIR sensor (not included).

Key Features

• Dial for up to 97 messages
• Customisable ‘Pickup message’ activated every time phone is answered
• Customisable ‘Dial Tone’ plays – activated when phone is picked up without first ringing
• Adjustable volume
• Automatic ring every 1-59 minutes or with PIR movement sensor (Not Included) – Only applicable for phones with a bell/ringer
• Choose amount of rings (1 – 9)
• Easily programmable

Dialing

End users can dial the phone between numbers 1-97 to hear up to 97 messages, there’s also a ‘Pickup message’ which the phone will play whenever answered and a ‘dial tone’ which plays when the phone is picked up when not ringing (this can be any audio content from a replica dial tone or audio message). Simply add a PIR sensor and program a special pickup message for visitors to experience a call from the past.