AHTS Newsletter
Back Issues
Issue No: 222 Date: December 2001 Pages: 14
- West Australian Sub Branch Report
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- President’s Report
- AHTS Secretary Report
- Special Sale Announcement
- Reminders
- Hunnings Transmitter Revisited - Part 2
- The Craftsman's Corner - Got an Angelstick telephone in your Collection
?
- Auction Report; From the Real World
- General News
- A Journey through Past telecommunications in Germany
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 221 Date: October 2001 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- President’s Report
- Special Sale Announcement
- AHTS 25th Aniversary Celebrations
- Hunnings Transmitters Revisited - Part 1
- The Help Wanted Column
- The Craftsman's Corner - French Polishing
- Reminders
- Note to Overseas Members
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 220 Date: August 2001 Pages: 16
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- President’s Report
- AHTS 25th Aniversary Celebrations
- Special Sale Announcement
- Reminders
- We Were Wrong
- Wills Street Development Project
- The First AHTS Newsletter
- Western Electric Wall Set
- AHTS Web Site Launched
- The Craftsman's Corner
- The Help Wanted Column
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 219 Date: June 2001 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- President’s Report
- Experts Profile
- Theme Night 20th April 2001, Tin, Metal Box & Military Telephones
- Special Sale Announcement
- Theiler Telephone - A Restoration Saga
- Letters From The Editor
- Special Issue - The Telephone Card
- Reminders
- General News
- The Help Wanted Column
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 218 Date: April 2001 Pages: 20
- Western Australia Update
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- President’s Report
- A Copy of the World's first Telephone Directory
- Ballarat: Victoria's First Country Telephone Exchange
- 1927 Sears Roebuck Catalogue Extract Covering Telephones
- Ballarat's Telephone Subscriber No 1: James Oddi
- Special Sale Announcement
- Letter From the Editor
- Archive Committee
- Telephones For the Bush in the 1960's - New Guinea Style
- AHTS February Meeting - A Rare Good Time!
- Reminders
- General News
- The Help Wanted Column
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 217 Date: February 2001 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- Western Australia Update
- President’s Report
- The Next Meeting - AHTS Celebrates 125 Years of the Telephone
- Point Cook Visit
- A Brief History of Communications in Victoria
- Early Christmas Presents
- British GPO 162 Colour Sample Selection
- Magneto Desk Set Catalogue Extracts
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 216 Date: December 2000 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- Aukland, N.Z. Museum of Transport and Technology
- The Next Meeting
- Development of the 37 A.W.
- Update from Western Australia
- Western Electric Catalogue Extracts
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 215 Date: October 2000 Pages:
16
Issue No: 214 Date: August 2000 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Society Report July-August
- Telephone Codes in the Early Days
- Magneto Telephone Shortages
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 213 Date: June 2000 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Apollo Bay Trip
- Ericsson 127MW ("Hand Combination" Telephone)
- ATCS Sydney Show Report
- The Attachment Corner (Glass Mouthpieces Part 4)
- STSF Annual Meeting Held in Stockholm 27/5/00
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 212 Date: April 2000 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- Proposed Visit – Old Cable Station Museum, Apollo Bay
- AHTS Calendar
- Upcoming AHTS Show
- News from Western Australian Sub Branch
- Will Street Visit 18 February 2000
- Submarine Cables: Victoria – Tasmania
- Origins of the AHTS and the ATCS – Part 2
- The Attachment Corner (Glass Mouthpieces Part 3)
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 211 Date: February 2000 Pages: 16
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- New Members
- AHTS Calendar
- Next Meeting
- News from Western Australian Sub Branch
- Proposed Visit to the Old Cable Station Museum, Apollo Bay
- The Attachment Corner (Glass Mouthpieces Part 2)
- Telephone Development of Early Melbourne
- Origins of the AHTS and the ATCS – Part 1
- In Memoriam: Bill Cockerell
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 210 Date: December 1999 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary) - AGM
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Letter From the Past President (Marco Laudani)
- Letter from Richard Wymer, Vice President
- Treasurer’s report 1999
- Eastern Electric – The Early Years
- The Attachment Corner (Glass Mouthpieces Part 1)
- News from Western Australian Sub Branch
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 209 Date: October 1999 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Western Australian Members Update
- History and telephone of Stromberg-Carlson (Desk Stands)
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 208 Date: August 1999 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- AHTS Calendar
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Public Telephone Cabinets Used in Australia
- Exploring the PMG Fluted-Stepped Base Candlestick Telephone
- Extract from Ericsson Catalogue on Magneto Table and Wall Switchboards
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 207 Date: June 1999 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- News from Western Australia
- Who Really Invented the Telephone
- ATCS Show Report
- Catalogue Extract on Cloth Telephone Chords
- Collectors Beware: A Telephone Story With a Bad Ring
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 206 Date: April 1999 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- New Members
- News About the Swedish Telemuseum Video
- Next Meeting
- Telephone History in Geelong: Part 2 – The Geelong Manual Exchange
- Elisha Gray; "Also Ran"
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 205 Date: February 1999 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary) - AGM
- AHTS Calendar
- New Members
- Correction to Last Issue
- Western Australia – Sub Branch Christmas Meeting
- Telephone History in Geelong: Part 1 – William Jackson Thomas
- Automatic Electric – Telephones Circa 1912
- Letter from Arnold Rupp, Spain.
- Next Meeting
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 204 Date: December 1998 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- AHTS Calendar
- Telephone Shows
- 162/232 Table Telephone
- The 232 Type Table Telephone
- Extract of Telephone Engineering Instructions – Australia Post Office
- Ericsson Budapest – Skeletal Table Telephones
- Treasurers Report
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 203 Date: October 1998 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary) - AGM
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Catalogue Extract on Swedish American Telephone Co.
- AHTS Show Report September 1998
- Electroplating – August Meeting Demonstration
- Farewell Frank Soden – AHTS Member No. 1
- President’s Report
- Telemuseum Video Project – Progress report from STFS
- The Telephone Exchange
- List of Past Presidents and Committee Members
Issue No: 202 Date: August 1998 Pages: 14
- Next Meeting
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- Huges, Crossley, Blakey and Emmott
- Member Profile - No. 295 Arnold Rupp (Spain)
- Important notice Regarding Show
- Dinner Bookings for Show Dinner
- News, Minutes and Notes frin Western Australia
- A Trip to the Continent
- Presti Estate - Phone Austion (Review)
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 201 Date: June 1998 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- Notes and Reminders
- AHTS Show Details
- AHTS Calendar
- New Members
- Of Microphones and Men: Hughes, Cossley, Blakey and Emmott
- Kellogg automatic Wall Phone (Circa 1920’s)
- Ericsson ‘Show and Tell’ Meeting – 17th April, 1998
- Telemuseum Video Update
- Telecommunications Heritage Group (England)
- Notice – Book Reprint (Vintage Telephones of the World)
- Peter Scott-Young – Timber Veneers Specialist
- The Telephone Doll
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 200 Date: April 1998 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary) - AGM
- Next Meeting
- General Information from the Editor
- AHTS Calendar
- New Members
- Common Questions about Ericsson Wall Telephones
- The Swedish / Commonwealth Ericsson Wall Telephone No 131MW
- Member Profile: Ray White – A Tech On The Move.
- WA News – An Update Of Occurrences
- Telemuseum Video Progress
- The Telephone Exchange
- Catalogue Extract on Batteries
Issue No: 199 Date: February 1998 Pages: 14
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- Commonwealth EricssonRestoration Notes: Part 3
- The Sumter Picture Frame Font
- Dial "R" for Reg!!
- AHTS Telephone Show 1998
- AHTS Upcomming Social Event
- A Swedish Experience
- An update from AHTS - Western Australia
- AHTS Visits the Melbourne Fire Museum
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 198 Date: December 1997 Pages: 12
- From the President
- Just a Minute (from the secretary)
- The Magneto Cordless Switchboard – Pyramid Type
- Collecting Now and Then: Ideas on how to Build Up Your Collection
- AHTS Calendar
- New Members
- Restoration Workshop
- Western Electric Candlestick Extract
- The Telephone Exchange
- AHTS Financial Statement for Year Ending 30 June 1997
Issue No: 197 Date: October 1997 Pages: 16
- Telegraphs to 1900
- A Word From The Tresurer
- The Electrician, July 1, 1882
- The Editor Leaves His Desk
- More Congratulations
- Trivia
- Committee Notes
- More on Sweeden
- Welcomes
- Member Profile: Roland Clark
- Commonwealth Ericsson Restoration Notes; Part 2
- The Telephone exchange
Issue No: 196 Date: August 1997 Pages: 16
- A Note from The Morsecodians
- Where We’ve Come From: Extract of AHTS No. 44 August 1980
- From The Editor’s Desk
- New Members
- Charles Scribner: The Man Behind The Switchboard
- Member Profile: Lou Mezosi
- Telegraphs into 1900; Part 3
- Polarized Relays: A Further Note
- Commonwealth Ericsson Restoration Notes
- Survey Results
- Reprint of "Growth of the Telephone Movement in Pastoral and Agricultural
Communities"
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 195 Date: June 1997 Pages: 16
- More on the Swedish Connection
- AHTS is Pleased to Welcome STFS as a Complimentary Member
- Henrik’s Corner
- Special Welcomes
- News From the West
- The Australian 800/8000 Series Telephones
- From the Editor’s Desk
- Telegraphs into 1900; Part 2
- A Note From Rosemary
- Advance Notice of social Event
- A Note on the Murray Telegraph System
- Women and the Telegraph
- The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 194 Date: April 1997 Pages: 18
- Photo Montage
- Restoration Social Report
- Next Meeting
- Can Anyone Help Brad
- Telegraphy Pre-1900: Part 1
- From the Editor's Desk
- Spetial welcomes
- A New telephone Mouthpiece
- The Wallhalla telegraph
- Greetings and Other Types of Special Telegram Forms
- The Telephone Exchange
- Directory of Telephone Collecting Societies
Issue No: 193 Date: February 1997 Pages: 18
- AHTS Exhibition, November 1996
- From the Editor’s Desk
- Welcome to these New Members
- From Telegraph Messenger To Supervisor: Bill Cockerell’s 50 years with the
PMG
- Extract on Western Electric Pattern (USA) Morse Key
- Telephone Collecting in Sweden
- A Note on Historic Walhalla
- Port Arthur Historic Site Notes: The Semaphore Telegraph System
- Extract from Telecom News on Morsecodian Meetings
- The Telephone Exchange
- Books
- Reproduction Parts and Spares
- Details of Upcoming 1997 Telephone Collector’s Show
Issue No: 192 Date: December 1996 Pages: 12
- The Show - A Taste of Things to Come
- from the Editor's Desk
- Welcomes
- A Two-Way Thankyou Note
- the Show - Preliminary Report
- Women and the Telephone: Part four - Women at Home
- President's Report
- Trading Post
- Next Meeting
Issue No: 191 Date: October 1996 Pages: 18
- An Invitation to be Part of the Historic Radio, Telephone, and Gramophone
Joint Exhibition (Nov. 23rd & 24th)
- From the Editor’s Desk
- The AGM
- Mountjoy’s Book
- Extract from Knox News on Kevin Knox
- Women and the Telephone: Part 3 – Manufacturing
- Restoration Corner: How to Fit Skeletal Transfers
- Extract from the National telephone Journal on An Unusual Cause of Fire
- Understanding Sidetone Circuits: Part 1
- Member Profile: One of an Occasional Series: Reg. & Sylvia Easdale
- Trading Post
Issue No: 190 Date: August 1996 Pages: 18
- New Video Available: Early Telephone Developments
- From the Editor’s Desk
- Telephone Show Details
- Women and the Telephone: Part 2
- Bakelite Telephones
- Trading Post
- Extract from a Scottish Paper on the First Automatic Telephone Exchange
in Great Britain
Issue No: 189 Date: June 1996 Pages: 18
- Next Meeting
- New Video Now Available - Early Telephone Developments
- From the Editor's Desk
- "Number Please" - Early London Telephone Exchanges
- Women and the Telephone
- A Note from the tasmanian Museum - Beware: radiation Hazard
- Expression of interest - Telephone Show
- Book Promotioon - The Telephone Patent Book
- More on Ericsson Pulpits
- Sydney Telephone Collectors Show Report 1996
- AHTS Auction Rules
- Security of Antique telephones and Similar Items
- trading Post
Issue No: 188 Date: April 1996 Pages: 14
- Next Meeting
- From The Editor's Desk
- Auction Report
- Correspondence
- Ericsson Pulpit Wall Telephone
- 46 Years with the PMG - Ernie Webster, Tasmania
- Trading Post
Issue No: 187 Date: February 1996 Pages: 17
- Next Meeting
- Insulator Collecting. Member Profile: Noel Dawson
- Extract from the Antique telephone Collector's Association Newsletter on
Northern Electric Telephones
- From the Editoer's Desk
- Extract on A Medhurst Designed Switchboard
- The Berthon-Ader Wall Telephone
- Candlesticks
- Trading Post
- 1996 Telephone Collector's Show Details
Issue No: 186 Date: December 1995 Pages: 14
- Tracing the History of the Commonwealth Ericsson Wall Phone
- Invitation to "Candlestick Night"
- Extract from The Telecommunication Journal of Australia on A comprehensive
Telephone Service
- From the Editor’s Desk
- Trivia: Reprinted from AHTS No. 170
- Outgoing President’s Report
- Margaret’s Story: AHTS Interviews a London Telephonist
- Trading Post
- Extract from a Patent on a Candlestick Pad Support
Issue No: 185 Date: October 1995 Pages: 14
- From the Editor’s Desk
- AHTS Financial Statement for Year Ending 1995
- Telephone Hook Switches; Their Early Development
- Member Profile: How Frank Soden got His Start
- Helpful Hint: Dial won’t Run?
- Lightning Protection: Part 2
- AHTS Auction Rules
- Displaying your Swedish Ericsson Wall Phone
- Extract from The Laughing Australian on Kookaburras and Telephones on Postcards
- Trading Post
Issue No: 184 Date: August 1995 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Fron the Editor's Desk
- Magazine Review: Telecom History
- The Hunnings - Ansestor of the Modern Carbon Granule Transmitters
- Lightning Protection
- Dr Bell Visits Brisbane
- Trading Post
Issue No: 183 Date: June 1995 Pages: 12
- Lightning Arresters: Part 1
- From the Editor’s Desk
- Frederick William Medhurst: Tasmanian Telephone Pioneer
- AHTS Committee
- AHTS Auction Rules
- Extract from The Telephone Patent Book on a Telephone Disinfectant Attachment
- Book Promotion: The Telephone Patent Book
- Trading Post
Issue No: 182 Date: April 1995 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- What is it ? (from last issue)
- From The Editor's Desk.
- Book Promotion - The Telephone Patent Book
- Frederick William Medhurst - Tasmanian Telephone Pioneer
- Extract from the Telephone Patent Book
- Book Promotion - Alexander Graham Bell
- Trading Post
Issue No: 181 Date: February 1995 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- From The Editor's Desk.
- What is it ? (from last issue)
- Books For Sale.
- Telephone in its Infancy
- Copy of 127MW Engineering Instructions from Substation E 2001
- Welcomes
- Trading Post
Issue No: 180 Date: December 1994 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- President's Report
- Books for Sale
- From the Editor's Desk
- Committee Notes
- Terms and Part Names can be Confusing! Here are a Few Basics
- Commonwealth Public Service Examination No. 517, August 1914 (Junior Mechanic,
PMG)
- The Story of the Development of the Glass Insulator
- AHTS Statement of Receipts and Payments for Year Ending 30.6.1994
- Audit Report of 1993/94 Finanacial Operations of the AHTS
- What is it ?
- Wanted, Sell, Swap
Issue No: 179 Date: October 1994 Pages: 8
- Next Meeting
- President's Report
- Shellac Finishing of Old Telephones
- Copper Plating on the Cheap
- Wanted, Sell, Swap
Issue No: 178 Date: August 1994 Pages: ?
Issue No: 177 Date: June 1994 Pages: ?
Issue No: 176 Date: April 1994 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- An Interesting Invitation From ACTS
- Good Fidelity, and More Importantly Sterio, Nearly a Century Ago
- Cobalt, Tungsten and Chromium in Your Telephone
- The Infinite Line
- 110 Years Ago
- The Shocking Truth
- The Story of Insulation In Your Telephone
- The Story of Magnesium In Your Telphone
- Membership Renewals
- Wanted
Issue No: 175 Date: February 1994 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- President's Report
- Submarine Cables
- Letter to the Editor
- Rambling Article
- Extract on the History of Computing
- Extract on the Timeline of the Early History of Telephony
Issue No: 174 Date: December 1993 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- President's Report
- Transpositions
- Statement of Receipts and Payments for Year Ending 30.6.93
- Extract of letter bi C>M in Scotts Magazine, mid 18th century
- A Short Story
- Telephone Influence Factor
- Letter to the Editor
- Editor's Page
- A-Maze-Ing Telecomminications
- Wanted and For Sale, etc.
Issue No: 173 Date: October 1993 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- President's Report
- 40 Yeards Ago Indeed
- Gravity Switch
- Bell's Bel (or some advice from the editor)
- So Much for the Level of Speech, What About the Speed ?
- Extract from the TJA on Transmitter Characteristics
- Extract - Transmission Test Set for Subscribers' Instruments, Local Lines,
and Exchange Apparatus
- Trading Post
Issue No: 172 Date: August 1993 Pages: 20
- Next Meeting
- Handy Hint: Dial Labels
- Extract on the Oppenheimer Pole
- Letter to the Editor from Ray Jensen, N.Z.
- Ice-Cream Anyone? (Article on Ice-Cream-Scoop Mouth-Piece)
- Letter to the Editor on Double Poling
- Extract from 1920’s Webster Dictionary on tele*
- Short Article on Overhead Wires and Injuries
- Short Article on Thefts of Telephone Poles and Lines
- The Loud-speaking Telephone
- Extract on The Information Age
- Extract on A History Factory
- AC Waveforms and Power Calculations
- Wanted, Unwanted, For-Sale, Free-Gifts, Good Clean Filling, Etc.
Issue No: 171 Date: June 1993 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- News
- President's Report
- Letters to the Editor
- Did You Know...
- Quality Assurance, Acceptance, Statistics, and Sealed Patterns
- Facinating Stuff...
- "Charles Telecom", better known as Telecom Charlie
- This is an Edison-Bell Record
- The Wonderful Spell Chicken Facility
Issue No: 170 Date: April 1993 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Remember I Suggested the Research Visit would be Rewarding?
- Did You Know?
- You Probably Did Know
- Letter to the Editor
- Extract from a PMG Correspondence Course in Automatic Telephony on Automatic
Telephony
- Did you Know?
- Believe it or Not
- For Sale, Swap, Wanted, Etc.
Issue No: 169 Date: February 1993 Pages: 8
- Next Meeting
- President’s Report
- AHTS Meeting at Telecom Research Labs
- Did You Know?
- Trading Post
Issue No: 168 Date: December 1992 Pages: 8
- The Next Meeting
- President’s Report
- Editorial
- The Next Committee Meeting
- Feature Article – Ericsson Skeletal Open Frame Magneto Local Battery Telephones
- Trading Post
- Did you Know
- Ringing in a Revolution
Issue No: 167 Date: October 1992 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- AHTS Inc. Committee
- New Members
- A Note From The Secretary
- Australian Telephone Collectors Society
- Comics
- President’s Report
- Amalgamation With N.S.W.
- News Highlights
- Educational – Impulses
- AHTS Financial Statements
- Trading Post
Issue No: 166 Date: August 1992 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- AHTS Inc. Committee
- President’s Report
- New Member
- Austel Permits
- Solid Back Transmitter
- Article From AOTC News August 1992 – Longreach Hosts The End Of An Era To
Put The Outback On The Phone
- Feature Article – Part 2, Continued From The June Newsletter – Interpreting
The Engineering History Of The Telephony In Western Australia 1887-1987
- Trading Post
Issue No: 165 Date: June 1992 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Report On Last Meeting
- Book Offer – Telephone Antique To Modern
- Report On ATCS Collectors Fair
- Article From AOTC News – April 1992 – Hidden Secret Of Gabo Island
- Feature Article – Part 1 – Interpreting The Engineering History Of Telephony
In Western Australia 1887-1987
- Trading Post
Issue No: 164 Date: April 1992 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- This Issue
- President’s Report
- Letters
- New Members
- News Highlights
- Trading Post
- Feature Article – Extract From TCI Newsletter U.S.A. – Diseases
- News Highlights – Shifting From Old Telecom Treasures
- Educational – Telecommunications Act 1991 And How It May Affect You
Issue No: 163 Date: February 1992 Pages: 16
- The Next Meeting
- President’s Report – December Meeting
- Vale
- News Highlights (Various Newspaper Cuttings)
- Feature Article – The Telephone Mouth Piece
- Invitation
- Article – James Kennedy Logan 1844-1912
- ATCS Telephone Collectors Show 1992 – Program
- Trading
Issue No: 162 Date: December 1991 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Office Bearers And Committee
- President’s Report
- Constitution Change
- Mail
- Editorial – Noiega’s Telephone
- News Highlights (Various Newspaper Cuttings)
- Article – Recycling
- Feature Article – The Electrophone System
- Article From New Scientist December 1982 – Call Up A Number And Listen To
Debates In The House Of Commons
- Ex-Treasurer’s Report
- AHTS Financial Statements
- Trading Post
Issue No: 161 Date: October 1991 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- President’s Report
- News Highlights
- Article – Siemens Neophone
- Requiem For A Red Box
- Trading Post
Issue No:160 Date: August 1991 Pages: 16
- The Next Meeting
- President’s Report
- Coming Events
- Constitution Change
- Correspondence
- News Highlights (Various Newspaper Cuttings)
- Article – 1980 Two-Box Phones Australia And New Zealand
- Trading Post
Issue No: 159 Date: June 1991 Pages: 2
- President’s New Bulletin
- Proposed Agenda For Next 12 Months
- Next Meeting
Issue No: 159 Date: March 1991 Pages: 14
- Editorial
- Invitation – Telephone Collectors Fair
- News Highlights
- Article – The Ancestors Of Today’s Batteries
- Article – History Of Telephone Switching Technology In Australia – Continued
- Trading Post
Issue No: 158 Date: February 1991 Pages: 12
- President’s Report
- Telephone Collectors Fair
- News Highlights
- Feature Article – The History Of Telephone Switching Technology In Australia
- Articles From ATCA Newsletter – Last Magneto Party Line
- Advertisements From The ATCS Swapshop
- Trading Post
Issue No: 157 Date: December 1990 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- President’s Report
- Article – The Outback’s Calling
- Article From A 1934 Ericsson Bulletin – A Protected Telephone System For
Use Along High Voltage Transmission Routes
- Ads From Antique Telephone Collectors Association
- Trading Post
Issue No: 156 Date: November 1990 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Office Bearers
- New Member
- President’s Report
- Article – The Inventive Genius Of Henry Sutton
- Article – Battery-Call Railway Telephones
- Treasurer’s Report
- Trading Post
Issue No: 155 Date: October 1990 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- President’s Report
- News Highlights
- Article From The Ericsson Bulletin – Police Telephones And Signals A New
System
- Trading Post
Issue No: 154 Date: September 1990 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- President’s Report
- News Highlights
- Article – The Evolution Of The Strowger Dial
- Trading Post
- Books Available From ATCA Newsletter
Issue No: 153 Date: August 1990 Pages: 14
- The Next Meeting
- Committee
- President’s Report
- News Highlights
- Article – Understanding That Beam Of Light
- Article – The British Ericsson Magneto Handset Wall Telephone
- Trading Post
- Advertisement From The Antique Telephone Collectors Association
Issue No: 152 Date: July 1990 Pages: 14
- The Next Meeting
- This Issue
- President’s Report
- Handy Hints – Cleaning Brass Nickel Plating
- News Highlights
- Ericofon Telephone – Maintenance Notes
- Article – Australia-Tasmania Cable
- Trading Post
- Letter – From The Telephone Collectors International
Issue No: 151 Date: June 1990 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Note From The Editor
- President’s Report
- News Highlights
- Articles From People Magazine
- Article – The New Trunk Insulator (From The 1939 Telecommunications Journal
Of Australia)
- The Way We Were
- Trading Post
Issue No: 150 Date: May 1990 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- A Note From The Editor
Last Months Meeting
- Membership
- New Members
- AHTS Mailbox
- From The Newspapers
- The Way We Were
- AHTS Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Wood Restoration
- Attached - The 162/232 – Type Table Handset
- Attached - Telephone Pamphlet No. 68. (issued June 1937, August 1937)
Issue No: 149 Date: April 1990 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- From the President
- Membership Renewals
- Restoration Hints
- From The Newspapers
- The Way We Were
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- The A.P.O. Type 162/232 Handset Telephone
- The Manufacture Of The Neophone
- Attached - The Story Of Cotton In Your Telephone
Issue No: 148 Date: March 1990 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Urgent Notice To All Members
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Next Meeting
- Books
- Phonographs And Gramophones
- Edison: The Man And His Work
- The Way We Were
- Attached - The Story of Iron In Your Telephone
Issue No: 147 Date: February 1990 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- The Way We Were
- Our First Telephone Exchange (continued from Issue No. 146)
- Victorian Institute Of Engineers
- Attached - The Story Of Asphalt In Your Telephone
Issue No: 146 Date: December 1989 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Editorial
- To All Members
- Membership
- Cleaning, Oxidizing And Colouring Metalwork
- A.H.T.S. Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Telephone Development Around The World
- Our First Telephone Exchange
- Central Battery Signaling
Issue No: 145 Date: November 1989 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Editorial
- Membership
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- The Story Of Henry Byron Moore And Our First Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 144 Date: October 1989 Pages: 14
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- Editorial
- Presidents Report
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Thomas Theophilus Draper (1839 – 1921) – a biographical summary of his life
and work
Issue No: 143 Date: September 1989 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- Elections
- Editorial
- Membership
- Mail Box
- Special Offer
- A New Telephone Society
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- The Berthon-Ader Wall Telephone (continued from previous issue)
- The Way We Were
- Transmitters In Practical Use (continued from Issue No. 139)
Issue No: 142 Date: August 1989 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Editorial
- Membership
- Special Offer
- The Way We Were
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Stromberg-Carlson
Issue No: 141 Date: July 1989 Pages: 18
- Next Meeting
- Vendors
- Coming Events – August
- Editorial
- Telephone Development Around The World
- Electrophone
- The Berthon-Ader Wall Telephone
- Telephones Of France
Issue No: 140 Date: June 1989 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Editorial
- Membership
- Newsletter
- New Service
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Books
- The Way We Were
- Looks Phoney Exhibition
- What Telephone Is That?
- Central Battery Telephones
Issue No: 139 Date: May 1989 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Editorial
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Mobile Police Communications In Victoria
- Membership
- The Way Were
- From The Newspaper
- Attached - The Story Of Nickel In Your Telephone
- Attached - Practical Handbook
Issue No: 138 Date: April 1989 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Looks Phoney
- Editorial
- Membership
- The Way We Were
- Books
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Attached - Early Receivers
- Attached - The Story Of Precious Metals In Your Telephone
Issue No: 137 Date: March 1989 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Editorial
- Membership
- AHTS Bookshop
- Other Books Available From Overseas
- Mail Box
- From The Newspaper – Phones With A Hang-up
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Attached - An Unusual Telephone Display (reprint from a 1983 issue on "Post
Office Publicity")
- Attached - The Way We Were
Issue No: 136 Date: February 1989 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Editorial
- Trading Post – Want To Buy, Sell, Swap
- The Way We Were
- The Development Of The Magneto Wall Telephone
- The Articulating Or Speaking Telephone
Issue No: 135 Date: December 1988 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Overseas Visitors
- Special Offers
- Annual Subscriptions
- Membership
- Proposed Telephone Exhibition – 1989
- The Telephone And Popular Culture
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Attached - The Modern Handset Telephone
- Attached - Telephone Pamphlet No. 68 (issued June, 1937, August 1937)
Issue No: 134 Date: November 1988 Pages:12
- Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- AGM - Elections
- Membership
- Auctions
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- The Way We Were
- From The Newspapers
- Attached - The Party Line Telephone Service
- Attached - Clausen Eight-Party System Bell Connections
Issue No: 133 Date: October 1988 Pages: 14
- Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- Elections
- Memberships
- Bicentennial Trade Fair – Post Script
- Letters
- President’s Report
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- The Way We Were
- Attached - The Miracle Of Talking By Telephone – 1937 National Geographic
Magazine
Issue No: 132 Date: September 1988 Pages: 8
- Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- Last Month’s Auction
- Funds
- AGM Elections
- Membership
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- The Bicentennial Trade Fair Display
- Special Offer Book
Issue No: 131 Date: August 1988 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- Application Forms
- Mail Box
- Bicentennial Trade Fair Exhibit
- From The Newspapers
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Attached - Miscellaneous Applications (extracts from "Poole’s Practical
Handbook")
- Attached - Continuing the 1937 National Geographic Magazine article
Issue No: 130 Date: July 1988 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- Membership
- The Way We Were
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- From The Newspapers
- Telephone Development Around The World
- The Party Line Telephone Service
- Attached - The Miracle Of Talking By Telephone (1937 National Geographic
Magazine)
Issue No: 129 Date: June 1988 Pages: 14
- Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- Telephone Display
- Constitution
- Membership
- Last Month
- The Way We Were
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Phone Phreak Caught In Act – Telephone Engineer & Management, July 1,
1986
- How The Magneto Telephone Works
- Special Offer
Issue No: 128 Date: May 1988 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Forthcoming Events
- Membership Renewals
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- From The Newspapers
- The Way We Were
- Continuing The Party Line Telephone Story: Part 4
- Telephone Development Around The World – The United States Of America
Issue No: 127 Date: April 1988 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Forthcoming Events
- Membership
- Constitution
- The Way We Were
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- A Slice Of History (reproduced from a telecom publication)
- Continuing The Party Line Telephone Service: Part 3
Issue No: 126 Date: March 1988 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Alexander Graham Bell – Was He First To Invent The Telephone?
- Membership
- New Members
- Last Month
- Books
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Letters
- The Telephone – A Historical Anthology
Issue No: 125 Date: February 1988 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Membership Renewal
- From The Newspapers
- Telephone Development Around The World (Principality of Liechtenstein)
- The Party Line Telephone Service: Part 2 - Selective Ringing Systems
- Telephone Systems (extract from Western Electric catalog)
- Stromberg-Carlson
- Stromberg-Carlson Party Line Telephone – Battery Saver
Issue No: 124 Date: December 1987 Pages: 14
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Lacquer For Polished Metal Surfaces
- The Way We Were
- Local Exhibition Of Telephones – Stanley, Tasmania
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Electroplating For The Amateur
- From The Newspapers
- Attached - The Story Of Mica And Cellulose Acetate In Your Telephone
Issue No: 123 Date: November 1987 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Repairing Woodwork
- Special Offer
- Restoring Painted Metal surfaces
- Odd Spot (Rust Removal By Electrolysis)
- The Intermediate Telephone (finishing off last month’s article on Extension
Switches)
- Attached - The Story Of Silk In Your Telephone
Issue No: 122 Date: October 1987 Pages: 18
- Next Meeting
- Elections
- Coming Events
- An Important Centenary
- Last Month’s Auction
- Membership
- President’s Report
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Telephone Extension Switches
- Specification For Switch, Common Batter, Single Extension, and Intercommunication
- Telephones And Microphones – How To Make And Use Them
Issue No: 121 Date: September 1987 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- Letters
- The Way We Were
- Conditions Of Service 1936 (Telecommunication Journal of Australia, Vol.
36, No 3, 1986)
- Attached - Telephones And Microphones
- Attached - Home-Made Batteries
Issue No: 120 Date: August 1987 Pages: 14
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- New Member
- Coming Events
- Letters
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Stromberg-Carlson Magneto Wallset
Issue No: 119 Date: July 1987 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- Last Month's Auction Meeting
- Comming Events
- Introduction to the Automatic Exchange into Australia
- The Telephone - A Slow Starter
- Extracts from the Geelong Advertiser
- The Way We Were
Issue No: 118 Date: June 1987 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Visitor
- Coming Events
- Membership
- Mailbox
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Telephones And Microphones – Part 2
- From The Newspapers
Issue No: 117 Date: May 1987 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Motion Proposing To Alter Constitution
- Coming Events
- Bits ‘N Pieces
- Telephones And Microphones: Part 1
- Attached - A Telephone In His Hat (from a USA Telephony magazine 1894)
Issue No: 116 Date: April 1987 Pages: 14
- Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- Books
- Membership
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- A Telephone On The Farm (extract from a 1921 Stromberg Carlson catalog)
- Line Construction Materials
- A Great Idea That Didn’t Work: Provision Of Rural Service Over Rural Power
Lines (Telephony, September 24, 1979)
Issue No: 115 Date: March 1987 Pages: 18
- Next Meeting
- Poor Attendance At Monthly Meetings
- Notice Of Motion
- Auctions
- 1987 Membership Renewals
- Meeting Procedures
- Coming Events
- Tele-Scope
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- The Party Line Telephone Service
- Telephone Terms (extract from Western Electric catalog)
Issue No: 114 Date: February 1987 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Membership Renewal
- Trading post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Signaling Devices – The Magneto Generator
- Let’s Get Technical – How The Magneto Works
- Magneto Generators Used By The Australian Post Office
- Hand Generators
Issue No: 113 Date: December 1986 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- From The Editor
- Letters
- Coming Events
- The Way We Were
- Telephone Development Around The World – Republic Of Turkey
- Helpful Hints On Restoration Of Bell Receivers
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Attached - How the Telephone "Talks" (reprinted from the Telephone
Almanac – 1923)
Issue No: 112 Date: November 1986 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- AGM Report
- 50 Years Of The Telephone And The Hearing Aid
- Odd Spot
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- The Way We Were
- Bells
Issue No: 111 Date: October 1886 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- Presidents Report
- Telecom Open Days – October
- Odd Spot (extract from "The Living Australia")
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Phonographs And Gramophones
- Edison: The Man And His Work
Issue No: 110 Date: September 1986 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Last Meeting
- October Meeting
- Membership
- Special Offer
- Helpful Hint (Restoration Of Ericsson Battery Covers)
- Ericsson Telephone Features In A Play – 1887
- 1882 Wall Telephone
- The Development Of The L.M. Ericsson Company
Issue No: 109 Date: August 1986 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- Last Meeting
- September Meeting
- Tasmanian (Telecom) Workshop
- New Members
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Telephone Facilities In Outback Australia – The Digital radio Concentrator
System
- Special Offer
- Telephone Development Around The World – Thailand
- Concluding The Story Of Telegraphy In New Zealand
Issue No: 108 Date: July 1986 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- Loud Sounding Galah (from a Telecom magazine)
- Historical Events For July
- The Way We Were
- The Story Of Cotton In Your Telephone
- Rebus
- Telegraphy In New Zealand (continued from last month)
Issue No: 107 Date: June 1986 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Last Meeting
- Mailbox
- New Members
- Telegraphy In New Zealand
- Special Invitation
- Historical Events For June
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
Issue No: 106 Date: May 1986 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- May Meeting
- Membership
- Renewals
- From The Newspapers
- Historical Events For May
- Some Mouse Stories
- Attached - The Story Of Rubber In Your Telephone
- Attached - Yesterday’s Men Of Vision
- Attached - From Slipper Jack To System X
Issue No: 105 Date: April 1986 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- Mailbox
- 1899 Telephone Information
- Coming Events
- Last Meeting
- Historical Events For April
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Electrics – Telephone
- Let’s Get Technical (continuing the series on "How It Works")
- Telephone Receivers
Issue No: 104 Date: March 1986 Pages: 20
- Next Meeting
- Tenth Birthday Special Issue
- We Are 10 Years Old This Month
- Centenary Telephone Exhibition
- Membership
- New Members
- Last Meeting
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Historical Events For March
- Optical Fiber Transmission
- Potential Of Optical Fibers
- Fiber Optics Calls Up The Past
Issue No: 103 Date: February 1986 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- Mail Box
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Membership
- The Way We Were
- From The Newspapers
- Historical Events For January And February
- Attached - 1889 Telephone Information
- Attached - From The Far Corners Of The Earth (extracts from a 1927 Western
Electric catalogue)
Issue No: 102 Date: December 1985 Pages: 11
- Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- Letters
- New Member
- Auction
- Books Available
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- New Telephone Transmitters – 1883
- Odd Spot
- Australian Historical Telephone Society – Membership List – Dec. 1985
Issue No: 101 Date: November 1985 Pages: 10
- The Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- Membership
- New Members
- Letters
- Trading Post – Wanted to Buy, Sell, Swap
- Odd Spot
- Historical Events For October and November
- Telephone Development Around The World – Part 59 - Switzerland
- Plastics And Telephones
- Special Offer
- Odd Spot
- Telephone Maintenance In The Old Days
- Chicago Telephone Company – Rules For Troublemen
Issue No: 100 Date: October 1985 Pages: 14
- Next Meeting
- Elections
- President’s Report
- Coming Events
- Membership
- Letters
- Membership List
- New Membership Forms
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Helpful Hints – Ericsson Terminal Designation Labels
- Feature Article – Repairing Woodwork
- Feature Article – French Polishing
- Special Offer
- Helpful Hints From Makers Of Linseed Oil
- Telephone Development Around The World – Part 58 - Kingdom Of Sweden
- The Telephone Catalog – The Swedish/Commonwealth Ericsson Wall Telephone
- AHTS Financial Statement – Year Ended 30/6/85
Issue No: 99 Date: September 1985 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Books Available
- Letters
- From The Newspapers
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- A.H.T.S. Constitution
- Telephone Numbers For Reference
- Museum Near Taree (NSW)
- Odd Spot
- The United States Government And The Expansion Of Telephone Services In
The Depression Years Of The 30’s
- Historical Events For September
- Let’s Get (A Bit) Technical – The Telephone Transmitter
- Odd Spot
- Telephone Postcards
Issue No: 98 Date: August 1985 Pages: 16
- The Next Meeting
- Membership
- Auction Meeting Results
- Entrance Fee
- Letters
- Elections ’85
- The Australian Historic Telephone Society Incorporated – Postal Ballot
- Article – NJ Bell Disposes Of Garbage Dilemma
- AHTS Inc. Constitution
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Helpful Hint – Oxidizing Brass
- Historical Events For August
- Extract From "Scientific American" magazine – August 1883
- Feature Article – Central Battery Wallsets
Issue No: 97 Date: July 1985 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Membership
- Special Offer
- A Short Story
- Helpful Hint
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Telephone Development Around The World – Part 57 – Republic Of South Africa
- Extract From A 1927 Book – "From The Far Corners Of The Earth – The
Story Of Aluminum In Your Telephone"
- Article - A Link With The Past
- Family Connections Of Charles Moody To A.G. Bell
- Drawing Of Bell’s Telephones
Issue No: 96 Date: June 1985 Pages: 14
- The Next Meeting
- Last Month’s Events
- Arts Centre Visit
- Last Month’s Meeting
- Future Events
- New Members
- Odd Spot
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Article – The Beginning Of The Telephone Service In America
- Cartoons – On The Light Side
- Extract From 1919 Sterling Catalog
Issue No: 95 Date: May 1985 Pages: 16
- The Next Meeting
- Special Events
- Membership
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Article – Early Microphones (Reprint From Issue no. 28)
- Extracts From Early Books – Early Transmitters
- Article From 1927 Western Electric Book – The Story Of Coal In Your Telephone
- Article From 1927 Western Electric Book – The Story Of Mica In Your Telephone
Issue No: 94 Date: April 1985 Pages: 14
- The Next Meeting
- Advance Notice – May Functions
- Membership
- Obituary – Ruben P. Watson
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Odd Spot – FCC Issues Ruling On Dial-A-Porn Complaints
- The Telephone Catalog – Stromberg-Carlson
Issue No: 93 Date: March 1985 Pages: 14
- The Next Meeting
- Letters
- New Members
- Odd Spot
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Telephone Developments Around The World – Part 56 – Republic Of Singapore
- The Telephone Catalog – Magneto Handset Telephone
- Article - Bells Photophone
- Special Offer
Issue No: 92 Date: February 1985 Pages: 15
- The Next Meeting
- Membership Renewals
- Last Meeting
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Mail Box
- Cartoons – On The Light Side
- Telephone Catalog – Kellogg Magneto Handset Telephone (Type 1040)
- Telephone Facilities On Country Districts – The Use And Care Of The Telephone
- Continuing The Do-It-Yourself Telephone Story From Last Months
- Instructions For Installing And Testing Western Electric No. 1317 Type Telephone
Sets
Issue No: 91 Date: December 1984 Pages: 14
- The Next Meeting
- New Member
- Last Meeting
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- The Telephone Catalog – The 400 Series Telephones
- Odd Spots
- Telephone Facilities In Country Districts
- Magneto Line Bulletin – Bulletin No. 1009
- Continuing The Do-It-Yourself Telephone Installation Story From Last Month
– Instructions For Installing And Testing Western Electric No. 1317 Type Telephone
Sets
Issue No: 90 Date: November 1984 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Last Meeting
- New Members
- Letters
- Odd Spot
- Trading Post
- Odd Spot
- Cartoon – On The Light Side
- The Telephone Catalog – The 300 Series Telephones
- Do-It-Yourself Telephones – Western Electric
Issue No: 89 Date: October 1984 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Elections
- President’s Report
- Last Meeting
- New Member
- Odd Spot
- Trading Post
- Helpful Hint Department
- Cartoon – On The Light Side
- Odd Spot
- The Telephone Catalog – The APO 1939 Wood Automatic Wall Telephone Type
237
- Telephone Development Around The World – Part 55 – Commonwealth Of Puerto
Rico
- Odd Spot
- From The Western Electric Book – The Story Of Antimony In Your Telephone
Apparatus
- Treasurer’s Report
Issue No: 88 Date: September 1984 Pages: 10
- The Next Meeting
- Last Meeting
- New Members
- Letters
- Overseas Visitor
- Trading Post
- For Sale
- Odd Spot
- The Telephone Catalog – Type Table Handset Telephones
- Notes On The Development Of The Telephone In Tasmania
- Telephone Experiments
- Odd Spot
Issue No: 87 Date: August 1984 Pages: 10
- The Next Meeting
- Last Meeting
- New Member
- Odd Spot
- Trading Post
- Cartoon – On The Light Side
- Telephone Development Around The World – Part 54 – Pitcairn Islands
- Telephone Catalog – The APO/BPO 1920 Wood Automatic Wallset
- Article – Telephones For Use By Subscribers Only
- Odd Spot
- Article – The Story Of Copper In Your Telephone
Issue No: 86 Date: July 1984 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Letters
- Trading Post
- Telephone Development Around The World – Part 53 – The Republic Of The Philippines
- Cartoons – On The Light Side
- Special Offer
- Article – Old Technology Gives Kirsten New Outlet
- Odd Spot
- Helpful Hints
- Article From 1927 Western Electric Book – The Story Of Wool In Your Telephone
- Magneto Call Telephones
Issue No: 85 Date: May/June 1984 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Last Meeting
- Editor’s Note
- Letters
- Membership
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Historical Notes For May/June
- The Last Manual Exchange In Victoria Goes - Murtoa
- Article – Auto or Manual
- Note On Last Magneto Manual Exchange Closer In USA
- Article – Freddie Phone
- The Swedish – American No. 50 Desk Stand (Pedestal) Telephone
- Telephone Development Around The World – Part 52 – Republic Of Peru
Issue No: 84 Date: April 1984 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Last Meeting
- Letters
- New Members
- Trading Post
- Article – Circuit Operation Description Transistorized Ringing Current Generator
- Article – Wireless Telephony – From "Telephony"- Boyrer 1995
- Article – Queensland’s First Electric Public Address System
- Article – Lighthouse Communication – 1924 Wireless Telephone Services
- Voices Across The Oceans
- Cartoons – On The Light Side
- Extracts From 1928 Stromberg-Carlson Catalog
Issue No: 83 Date: March 1984 Pages: 14
- The Next Meeting
- Last Meeting
- Letters
- Membership
- Trading Post
- Telephone Development Around The World – Part 51 Kingdom Of Norway
- Odd Spot
- Helpful Hint
- The Telephone Story (Part 10 – British Western Electric Co.)
Issue No: 82 Date: February 1984 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Note
- Letters
- New Members
- Membership Renewals
- Trading Post
- Odd Spot
- Telephone Development Around The World (Part 50 – Norfolk Island)
- The Story Of The Telephone (Part 9 – Thomas Alva Edison)
- Anniversaries
- The Illustrated London News – Edison’s Loud-speaking Telephone
- Article – On Valentine’s Day, The Phones Belong To Lovers
- Switchboards
Issue No: 81 Date: January 1984 Pages: 12
- Happy New Year
- The Next Meeting
- Last Meeting
- New Members
- Letters
- Trading Post
- America Telephony – One/One/Eighty-four
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 49 - Kingdom Of Norway
- The Story Of The Telephone (Part 9 continued – Thomas Alva Edison, His Life
And Work
- "Peel-Conner" – Magneto Call Telephones
Issue No: 80 Date: November 1983 Pages: 11
- The Next Meeting
- Season’s Greetings
- Special Issue
- Last Meeting
- Mew Members
- Letters
- Correction
- Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Helpful Hint Department - Autosol
- Stolen! From Telecom Australia
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 48 - Federal Republic Of Nigeria
- Odd Spot
- The Telephone Story (Part 9 – Thomas Alva Edison)
Issue No: 79 Date: October 1983 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- New Members
- Last Meeting
- Annual Elections
- Trading Post
- Special Offer – Swedish Ericsson Battery Covers
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 47 - New Zealand
- Odd Spot
- Let’s Get Technical: Part 3
- New Zealand – Latest Telegrams
- Telephones Used In New Zealand
Issue No: 78 Date: September 1983 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- New Members
- Last Meeting
- Letters
- President’s Report
- Treasurer’s Report
- Special Offer (Again) – Swedish Ericsson Battery Covers
- Trading Post
- Something Old, Something New – Open Frame (Skeleton) Ericsson
- Odd Spot
- The South Australian Railways Telegraph System
- Pictures Of Phones
- Standard Telegraph Set – Diagram Of Wiring
Issue No: 77 Date: August 1983 Pages: 10
- The Next Meeting
- Phonographs And Gramophones
- Membership
- Letters
- Last Meeting
- Annual General Meeting Elections
- Special Offer – Swedish Ericsson Battery Covers
- Odd Spot
- Trading Post – Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
- Let’s Get Technical: Part 2 - On Magnetic Fields
- Public Telephone Exhibition
- Extract From 1919 Sterling Catalog – Twencen Telephones
Issue No: 76 Date: July 1983 Pages: 8
- The Next Meeting
- Membership
- Trading Post
- Let’s Get (A Little Bit) Technical: Part 1 - How Telephones Work
- Helpful Hint (Removing "Frozen Screws")
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 46 - Kingdom Of The Netherlands
- An Unusual Telephone Display
- Telephones Used In The Netherlands
Issue No: 75 Date: June 1983 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Membership
- Trading Post
- Helpful Hint (Wood Grain Effect On Swedish Ericsson Battery Covers)
- Odd Spot
- The Telephone Story: Part 8 – The Western Electric Company)
- Pictures Of Magneto Telephones (1878-90)
- Western Electric Company Articles
- The Story Of Iron In Your Telephone
- Australian Historic Telephone Society – Membership List – June 1983
Issue No: 74 Date: May 1983 Pages: 14
- The Next Meeting
- Meetings
- Letters
- Membership Renewals
- Trading Post
- The Telephone Battery
- Odd Spot
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 45 - Republic Of Nicaragua
- The Story Of Asphalt In Your Telephone
- Pictures Of Telephone Batteries
Issue No: 73 Date: April 1983 Pages: 8
- The Next Meeting
- New Members
- Membership Renewals
- Letters
- Odd Spot
- Telephone Tokens
- Centenary Of Telephone Service In Ballarat, Victoria, 1983
- Electric Traction Telephones
Issue No: 72 Date: March 1983 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Membership Renewals
- Trading Post
- Odd Spot
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 44 - New Caledonia
- Lightening Arresters
- Special Offer (Magazine Article On The Propagation Of Lightening And Thunder)
- The Berthon–Ader Telephone
Issue No: 71 Date: February 1983 Pages: 10
- The Next Meeting
- New Members
- Membership Renewals
- Trading Post
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 43 - Monaco
- Odd Spot
- Specifications
- Lightning Arrestor
- Central Battery Telephones
- Terminals, Terminals – Binding Posts
- Attached - The Story Of Mica In Your Telephone
Issue No: 70 Date: January 1983 Pages: 12
- The Next Meeting
- Letters
- Membership Renewals
- Trading Post: Buy, Sell, Swap
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 42 - Mexico
- Odd Spot
- Extensions Switches
- Magneto Mining Telephones
Issue No: 69 Date: November 1982 Pages: 10
- The Next Meeting
- End Of Year
- New Members
- Letters
- Trading Post: Wanted, Buy, Sell
- Helpful Hint (Cleaning Nickel Plated Parts Of Old Telephones)
- The Telephone Story: Part 7 - The Telephone Manufacturing Firms
- Odd Spot
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 41 - Mauritius
- Telephone Advertisements
- Attachment - The Story Of Aluminum In Your Telephone
Issue No: 68 Date: October 1982 Pages: 14
- The Next Meeting
- Membership
- Special Offer (Street Scenes Photographs)
- Trading Post
- Odd Spot
- The Telephone Story: Part 6 – Bell, The Independents
- Addendum – Corrigendum – Whatever
- Stop Press – For Sale
- From the Newspapers
- Special Service Telephones - Military
Issue No: 67 Date: September 1982 Pages: 15
- A Note From The Editor
New Members
- President’s Report
- Trading Post – Buy, Sell Swap
- Odd Spot (Ringing)
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 40 – Malta
- The Telephone Story: Part 5 – More Patent Problems
- Next Month
- Copies of Early Telephone Advertisements
- Statement of Receipts and Expenditure – Year Ended 30th June,
1982
Issue No: 66 Date: August 1982 Pages: 14
- Next Meeting
- A Note From The Editor
Membership
- New Members
- Trading Post – Buy, Sell Swap
- Jim’s Book
- Odd Spot (Ringing with tunes)
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 39 – Malaysia
- The Telephone Story: Part 4 – The Great Patent Battles
Issue No: 65 Date: July 1982 Pages: 16
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- New Members
- Trading Post – Buy, Sell Swap
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 38 – Luxembourg
- The Telephone Story: Part 3 – The Building of the Business
- How the Telephone Works: Part 1 – The Bell Telephone (Used both as a transmitter
and receiver)
- Odd Spot 1 (The Writing Telegraph)
- Odd Spot 2 (Getting the telephone started in England)
- Copies of Early Fliers (including Bells lecture in Lawrence, Mass., May
28 1877 and one describing the first telephone service installed in Australia)
Issue No: 64 Date: June 1982 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- Odd Spot
- Buy, Sell, Swap Section
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 37 - Liechtenstein
- The Automatic Exchange (70 years since the Geelong Exchange)
- The Telephone - A Slow Starter
- Another Odd Spot
- Bracket Telephones
Issue No: 63 Date: May 1982 Pages: 15
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- New Members
- Newsletter
- Helpful Hint (Removing small dents from woodwork)
- Another Ericsson Story
- The Telephone Story: Part 2 – The Telephone is Born
- Next Month
- Special Offer (Drawing for manufacture of Bell’s original telephones)
- What Is This Thing We Call Speaking
- Buy, Sell Swap
- Copies of Bell’s Original Patent for "Improvement in Telegraphy"
Issue No: 62 Date: April 1982 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- Renewals
- Letters
- Newsletter
- Buy, Sell Swap
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 36 – Japan
- Odd Spot (Using the telephone alerting mechanism to feed fish)
- The Telephone Story: Part 1 – Early Devices
- An amazing Ericsson Story
- Copies of Extract from a 1919 Sterling Catalogue
Issue No: 61 Date: March 1982 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- Letters
- Last Meeting
- French Polishing
- Buy, Sell and Swap Section
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 35 – Jamaca
- Special Offer (Pieces of the 1909 Tasmania cable)
- Concluding the Australian Telephone Story – The First East-West Link
- Copy of Peel-Conner Intercommunication Telephones Catalogue.
Issue No: 61 Date: March 1982 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Membership Renewals
- Buy, Sell and Swap Section
- The telephone is Australia, and the link to England
- Charges for International Telegraph Service – 1872
- Extract from Anglo-Australian and China Telegraph statement of the promoters.
- Extract from 1912 Peel-Conner Catalogue.
Issue No: 60 Date: February 1982 Pages: 12
Issue No: 59 Date: January 1982 Pages: 11
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Letters
- Corrigendum
- Helpful Hint – Woodwork Repairs
- Odd Spot (The family telephone companies of rural America)
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 34 – Italy
- Extract on "The story of coal in your telephone"
- Extract from 1910 Chicago Telephone Supply Co., Elkhart, Indiana, Catalogue.
Issue No: 58 Date: November 1981 Pages: 12
- Next Meeting
- Letters
- Special Offer (Photos of early Melbourne street scenes)
- Odd Spot for Christmas (Telephone company employee invents Christmas tree
lights)
- Sell, Buy, Swap Section
- Linking the Continents – The Atlantic Cable
- Extract from the New York Herald on the Great Atlantic Cable
Issue No: 57 Date: October 1981 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Letters
- Election Results
- Sell, Buy, Swap Section
- Odd Spot (Experimental "Phone from your truck" service)
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 33 – Ireland
- Linking the Continents – The Atlantic Cable
- Extract on telegraphs on the great western railway (1845)
Issue No: 56 Date: September 1981 Pages: 15
- Next Meeting
- Social Night
- President’s Report
- Calling South Australian Members
- The Development of the L.M. Ericsson Company
- Wanted, Buy, Sell Section
- Attached – serial list of Ericsson phones made in Sweden
- Attached – The story of Zinc in your telephone
Issue No: 55 Date: August 1981 Pages: 13
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Membership Cards
- Election
- Special Offer (Photos of early Melbourne street scenes)
- Odd Spot (Woodpecker damage to overhead cable)
- Buy, sell, Swap Section
- The Development of telephone Cables
- Election form
- Attached – The story of iron in your telephone
Issue No: 54 Date: July 1981 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- Public Telephones
- Odd Spot (Public telephone theft)
- Membership
- Letters
- Jim Bateman’s Book
- Notification of Errors in "History of the telephone in NSW"
- Wanted, Sell, Trade Section
- Attached – The story of Nickel in your telephone
- Extracts on Gray phones
Issue No: 53 Date: June 1981 Pages: 14
- Next Meeting
- Membership – New Members
- Social Evening
- Wanted, Buy, Sell, Trade
- Telephone Switchboards
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 32 – Iran/Iraq
- Extracts on Ericsson magneto table and wall switchboards
- Membership List
Issue No: 52 Date: May 1981 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- Automatic Wallsets
- New Member
- Membership Drive
- Auction Meeting in July
- History of the Telephone in New South Wales Book Now On Sale
- Letters
- Wanted to Buy, Sell, Trade
- Advertisements from Telephone Collector’s Society of Newsletter of NSW
- Reference Service (List of source material available)
- Attached – The story of paper in your telephone
- Attached – 1942 engineering instruction describing APO wood dial wall handset
and Australian modified (Ericsson) wallset
Issue No: 51 Date: April 1981 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- Keen Member
- New Members
- Membership Renewal
- Supper
- Royal Historical Society of Victoria
- Letters
- Odd Spot (Chinese telephone directory)
- Special Service Offer (reference service for members)
- Wanted, Buy, Trade Section
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 31 – India
- Extracts on telephones of France
- Attached – The story of Antimony in your telephone apparatus
- Attached – The story of Tin in your telephone apparatus
Issue No: 50 Date: March 1981 Pages: 7
- Next Meeting
- Special Offers (reference service)
- Other Special Offers (Photographs of telephone advertisements)
- Membership
- Membership Renewals
- Overseas Visitor
- Buy, Sell, Swap Section
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 30 – Iceland
- Extract from 1910 Chicago Telephone Supply Co., Elkhart, Indiana, Catalogue
- Attached – The story of Lead in your telephone
Issue No: 49 Date: February 1981 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- Telephone Receivers
- Membership Renewal
- New Members
- Valentine’s Day
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 29 – Hungary
- Attached – On Valentine’s Day, the Phone Belongs to Lovers
- Attached – Some early types of receivers
- Attached – Lines of development of telephonic inventions
Issue No: 48 Date: January 1981 Pages: 9
- Next Meeting
- American Wallsets
- New Members
- Overseas Membership Rate
- Odd Spot (Why telephone chords were plaited)
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 28 – Hong Kong
- Attached – The story of rubber in your telephone
- Attached – Some early American Wallsets
Issue No: 47 Date: November 1980 Pages: 12
- Annual Elections
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Exhibition Photos
- Balance Sheet Item
- End of Year Message
- Buy, Sell, Swap Section
- Letter from Ivan Burgess
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 27 – The United Kingdom of
Great Britain
- Attached – From Slipper Jack to System X
Issue No: 46 Date: October 1980 Pages: 12
- 1980 Exhibition
- Special Offer – Exhibition Photos
- Next Meeting
- President’s report for 1980
- Odd Spot – The first telephone booth
- Helpful Hint – Cleaning Copper
- Supper at Meetings
- The March of Progress – Closing manual telephone exchanges
- Buy, Sell and Swap Section
- Statement of Accounts for 1980 Centenary Exhibition
- Statement of Receipts and Expenditure – year ended 30th June
1980
- AHTS Mailing List
- Extract from flyer for J.E. Edwards telephone.
- Extract from the Argus August 11 1880 announcing the start of the telephone
service in Melbourne
Issue No: 45 Date: September 1980 Pages: 11
- Exhibition (Melbourne International Centenary Exhibition)
- Next Meeting
- Book on the history of telephones in NSW
- Wanted to Buy, Sell, Swap Section
- Contribution from Georg Ek, Colorado USA
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 26 – The United States of America
- AHTS – General Annual Election
- Attached AHTD Ballot form
Issue No: 44 Date: August 1980 Pages: 11
- The Melbourne Telephone Centenary, August 1880 - 1980
- 1980 Ehibition
- Special Events at the Exhibition
- Next Meeting
- New Member
- Book On The History Of The Telephone In NSW
- Buy, Sell, Swap Section
Issue No: 43 Date: July 1980 Pages: 9
- Next Meeting
- The Ericsson Open Frame (Skeletal) Table Set
- Membership
- Buy, Sell, Swap Section
- Our 1980 Exhibition
- Book on the History of the Telephone in NSW
- Odd Spot (Ringing telephone opens garage door)
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 25 – Hawaii
- Attached – The story of precious metals in your telephone
- Attached – Ericsson skeletal flyer
- Attached – 1914 PMG Department Ericsson skeletal circuit diagram
Issue No: 42 Date: June 1980 Pages: 6
- Next Meeting
- Intercom Telephones
- Membership
- New Member
- Our 1980 Exhibition
- Buy, Sell, Swap Section
- Who Did invent the Telephone?
- Helpful Hints (included booklet on Linseed Oil and restoring woodwork)
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 24 – Guatemala
- Attached – catalogue pictures of intercom phones of the 1920’s
Issue No: 41 Date: May 1980 Pages: 9
- Next Meeting
- Phone Dials
- New Member
- Change of Address
- Letters
- Buy, Sell, Swap
- Our Exhibition - 1980
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 23 – Greece
- Attached – The story of silk in your telephone
- Attached – 1894 advertisement for The Columbia Telephone
Issue No: 40 Date: April 1980 Pages: 6
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Change of Address
- Membership Renewal
- What Is A Telephone Worth?
- Buy, Sell, Swap
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 21 – Republic of Ghana
- Attached – The story of copper in your telephone
Issue No: 39 Date: March 1980 Pages: 6
Issue No: 38 Date: February 1980 Pages: 8
- Next Meeting
- Future Meetings
- New Members
- Membership Renewal 1980
- Letters
- New Telephone Poster
- Odd Spot (A clinic for ailing poles)
- For Sale
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 20 – Germany
- Attached – PMG Engineering instructions for prevention of accidents
- Attached – Catalogue extract of Peel-Connor central battery telephones
- Attached – AHTS Mailing List
- Attached – Membership Renewal Form
Issue No: 37 Date: January 1980 Pages: 5
- Next Meeting
- New Member
- Helpful Hint (formula for the restoration of polished wood)
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 19 – France
- Special Offer (Working drawings for Bell’s early telephones)
- Attached – Advertisements for reproductions of Bell’s original telephones
Issue No: 36 Date: November 1979 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- President’s Report
- Results of Annual Election
- New Member
- Odd Spot (5 cent phone calls ending in Louisiana)
- Special Offer (APO transmitter mounting lugs)
- Sell, Trade, Wanted
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 20 – Republic of Finland
- Attached – Statement of Receipts and Expenditure – Year Ended 30th
June, 1979
- Attached – Edison inventions a chronological listing
- Attached – Manhattan Electrical Supply Company catalogue
Issue No: 35 Date: October 1979 Pages: 8
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Letters
- Odd Spot (The importance of telephones to Americans)
- For Sale, Trade, Wanted
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 19 – Fiji
- Attached – Articles of association for Melbourne’s first telephone company,
1880
- Attached – Early receivers
Issue No: 34 Date: September 1979 Pages: 10
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Helpful Hint (use of toothbrushes to restore phones)
- Buy, Sell, Trade Section
- Odd Spot (Mystery paperweight)
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 18 – Ethiopia
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 17 – Falkland Islands
- Attached – Article on the Gottschalk Transmitter
- Attached – Early receivers
Issue No: 33 Date: August 1979 Pages: 6
- Next Meeting
- Film Show
- New Member
- Photo Enlargements
- Telephony In The Early Days – Some Oddities
- Odd Spot (Etelephony poem)
- Helpful Hint (formula for cleaning nickel plate)
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 16 – Dominican Republic
- Wanted to Sell, Buy, Trade
- Attached – Cover of Scientific American November 24 1894
Issue No: 32 Date: July 1979 Pages: 5
- Next Meeting
- Telephone Drawings Handout
- Exhibitions
- New Member
- Telephony IN The Early Days – The Patent Battles
- Unusual fault
- Telephone Development Around the World: Part 15 – Denmark
- Attached – Advertisement for the Hunning’s Cone" transmitter
Issue No: 31 Date: August 1978 Pages: 3
- Next Meeting
- Telephone Drawings Handout
- Membership Renewals
- Secretary’s Position
- Exhibitions, Etc.
- The Soden’s Trip To U.S.A.
- Telephone Development Around The World – Cyprus
- Books – "The Telephone Book" Order Details
- Attached - The Strowger Automatic Director
Issue No: 30 Date: May 1979 Pages: 7
- Next Meeting
- Telephone Drawing Handouts
- Overseas Trip
- Odd Spot
- Telephones In Countries Around The World: Part 14 - Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Attached - The Saga Of The Telephone Girl
Issue No: 29 Date: April 1979 Pages: 7
- Last Meeting
- Next Meeting
- New Members
- Telephone Drawing Handouts
- Another Free Handout
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 13 - Costa Rica
- Telephone Tokens
- Alexander Graham Bell – Inventor And Visionary
- Development Of LME’s Handsets (1884-1921)
Issue No: 28 Date: February 1979 Pages: 9
- Last Meeting
- Next Meeting
- Membership Renewals
- Our Photos
- Odd Spot
- Our Next Exhibition
- Sell/Buy/Swap Section
- Early Microphones
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 12 - China
- Attached - Pictures Of Carbon Transmitters
- Attached - Pictures Of Telephones And Fittings
- Attached - Pictures Of Portable Telephones
Issue No: 27 Date: January 1979 Pages: 10
- Auction Meeting
- Constitution
- Next Meeting
- Auctions
- Odd Spot
- Sale, Swap, Buy Section
- "The Glass Battery"
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 11 - Channel Islands
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 10 - Guernsey
- Telephone Development Around The World: Part 9 - Jersey
- "Hello, Central" – Article on "A Hilarious Reminiscence Of
The Finer Uses Of The Telephone In The Old Days
Issue No: 26 Date: November 1978 Pages: 8
- Last Meeting
- Constitution
- Auctions
- Next Meeting
- Auction Item
- Letters
- Odd Spot
- Telephones In Countries Around The World: Part 8 - Canada
- Sale, Buy, Swap
- Xmas Message
Issue No: 25 Date: October 1978 Pages: 6
- Annual General Meeting
- Constitution
- Next Meeting
- New Member
- Membership Applications
- Photo Enlargements
- Letters
- Odd Spot
- For Sale
- Telephone Development In Countries Around The World: Part 7 - Burma
- Voices From The Past
- Supply Of Telephones – Specifications
- Lightning Arrestor
Issue No: 24 Date: September 1978 Pages: 5
- Last Meeting
- Next Meeting
- Proposed Change To Constitution
- President’s Report
- New Members
- Social Notes
- Items Of Interest – The Telephone
- French Polishing
Issue No: 23 Date: August 1978 Pages: 3
- Last Meeting
- Membership
- Next Meeting
- Coming Events
- Annual Elections
- Special Offer – Photos
- Odd Spot
- Handset Telephone
- Telephoned The Dog
- Telephones In Countries Around The World: Part 5 – Kingdom Of Bhutan
Issue No: 22 Date: July 1978 Pages: 4
- Last Meeting
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- Coming Events For Future Meetings – French Polishing Demonstration, Films
Relating To Telephony
- For Sale
- Telephones In Countries Around The World: Part 4 – Bermuda
- The Origin Of The Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company
- Attached - Membership List
Issue No: 21 Date: June 1978 Pages: 3
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- The Origin Of The Glass Mouthpiece On The U.S.A.
- Telephone’s In Countries Around The World: Part 3 – Kingdom Of Belgium
- For Sale
Issue No: 20 Date: May 1978 Pages: 5
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- For Sale
- Telephones In Countries Around The World: Part 2 – The Bahamas
- The Development Of The Telephone Service In U.S.A.
Issue No: 19 Date: April 1978 Pages: 4
- Last Meeting
- Next Meeting
- Membership Renewal
- New Member
- Letters
- Telephones In Countries Around The World: Part 1 – Austria
- "L.M. Ericsson 100 Years" Order Detail To Buy The Book
Issue No: 18 Date: March 1978 Pages: 4
- Exhibition – Nostalgia Exhibition
- Next Meeting
- Bar-B-Q
- Treasurer’s Report
- Membership
- History Of The Ericsson Company Names
- Series-Bridging Ringing
- For Sale, Trade, Wanted
Issue No: 17 Date: February 1978 Pages: 5
- Last Meeting
- Exhibition
- New Member
- The Commencement Of A New Hobby – Written By New Member
- Membership Renewal
- The N.S.W. Collectors Society
- The Origin And Use Of The First Telephone Numbers
- The Dial
- Back To Digits, Seven In All
- Membership Renewal Form
Issue No: 16 Date: January 1978 Pages: 5
- Next Meeting
- Colour Photos Of 1976 Exhibition
- New Member
- Useful Hint – Economical Process Gives Professional Finish
- The First Push-Button Dial
- Early Battery Signaling System
- The Ericsson Story
- For Sale
- The Hunning’s Cone Transmitter
- Attached - Angry Dogs Bark – Advertisement For Williams Electric Company
Issue No: 15 Date: November 1977 Pages: 4
- Last Meeting
- Sydney Society
- Letters
- For Sale, Trade, Wanted
- Technology In The Early Days Of Telephony
Issue No: 14 Date: October 1977 Pages: 4
- Election Results
- Future Event – Nostalgia Exhibition
- Phone Company Predicts Bright Future For New Telephone – Drop A Nickel In
The Slot
- How To Make A Call
- Push-Button Telephone Work Without Operators
- For Sale
Issue No: 13 Date: September 1977 Pages: 5
- Last Meeting
- Election Meeting
- New Members
- Change Of Address
- Letters
- Telephone Display At A Hobbies Exhibition
- The Introduction Of Telephones Into South Australia: Part 2
- Wanted To Buy, Sell, Swap
Issue No: 12 Date: August 1977 Pages: 4
- Last Meeting
- Annual Meeting
- Letters
- Restoring Old Telephones: Part 4 – Nickel Plating
- The Introduction Of Telephone Into South Australia: Part 1
- Voices On The Wire
Issue No: 11 Date: July 1977 Pages: 5
- Last Meeting
- Treasurer’s Report
- Membership – Reached 45 Members
- Elections
- Exhibition
- Auction
- New South Wales Collectors
- Letters
- Next Meeting
- The Murfett Collection – The Story Of Murray Murfett’s Collection Of Telephones
- For The Experimenter - Circuits And Information On Making A 10 Line Private
Automatic Exchange And For Making A "Photophone."
- Restoring Old Telephones: Part 3 – Rejuvenating Bakelite/Vulcanite and Telephone
Cords
- A.H.T.S. Annual Election 1977 Voting Form
Issue No: 10 Date: January 1977 Pages: 3
- Last Meeting
- Membership
- Letters
- Our Book
- Next Meeting And Auction
- For Sale
- Restoring Old Telephones: Part 2 – French Polishing Woodwork
- Alexander Graham Bell’s Other Inventions
- Arrangement Of The Photophone
- List Of Members Names And Addresses
Issue No: 9 Date: May 1977 Pages: 5
- The Last Meeting
- The Next Meeting
- Membership
- New Members
- Membership Certificates
- Invitation
- Events – Phonograph Club
- Telephone Artifacts
- Helpful Hint(Restoring Old Telephones): Part 1 – Dismantling Telephones
- Wanted To Buy, Sell, Trade
- The L.M. Ericsson Story: Part 6 – Ericsson The Man
- From Frank Soden (President) – Collecting Telephones
Issue No: 8 Date: April 1977 Pages: 6
- Last Meeting
- Treasurer’s Report
- Next Meeting
- Membership Renewals
- New Members
- Visit
- Notes From Sydney
- Coming Events – Weekend Exhibition
- Auction
- The L.M. Ericsson Story: Part 5 – The Years Of Retirement
- Attached - Article On The History Of Bell’s Invention
- Attached - Pictures Of Telephones (1886 – 1973)
Issue No: 7 Date: March 1977 Pages: 5
- Last Meeting
- Membership Renewal
- Letters
- Restoring Telephones
- Identifying The Year Of Manufacture Of Your Ericsson Phones
- The L.M. Ericsson Story: Part 4 – Building An Industry
- Restoring Wood Surfaces
- For Sale – 1910 Leich Manual Candlestick
Issue No: 6 Date: February 1977 Pages: 4
- Last Meeting
- Secretary’s Position
- Sydney Meeting
- Membership Renewal
- Next Meeting
- Visitors From U.S.A.
- Publicity
- New Members
- The L.M. Ericsson Story: Part 3 – A Company Is Born
- Buy, Sell, Trade, Wanted
Issue No: 5 Date: January 1977 Pages: 3
- Last Meeting (increase to 9 Members)
- Secretary’s Position
- Membership Fees, Renewals
- Meeting Venue
- Next Meeting
- Membership – A New Member From U.S.A
- Changes Of Address
- New Members
- The L.M. Ericsson Story: Part 2 – Training Abroad
- Restoring Wood Surfaces
- Buy, Sell, Trade, Wanted
Issue No: 4 Date: November 1976 Pages: 4
- Last Meeting
- Secretary Position
- Membership Certificates
- Membership Renewal
- Next Meeting
- Helpful Hint – Serial Numbers Of Telephones
- Who Invented The Telephone: Part 3 – Antonio Meucci
- The Story Of L.M. Ericsson: Part 1 – The Early Years
- Sell, Buy, Trade, Wanted
Issue No: 3 Date: October 1976 Pages: 5
- Change Of Address
- Correspondence
- Next Meeting
- Letter From A Member
- Restoring Old Wood Sets
- "Telephone, The First 100 Years" by John Brooks – Ordering Details
- Addresses of American Dealers In Phones, Parts, Etc.
- Who Invented The Telephone: Part 2 – Philip Reis
- Useful Reference Books In State Library, Swanston Street, Melbourne
- For Sale
- Rules For Subscribers Of The Telephone Exchange
Issue No: 2 Date: September 1976 Pages: 4
- Last Months Meeting
- Next Meeting
- Membership
- Items Wanted For Swap, Sale, etc.
- Helpful Hint (restoring Swedish Commonwealth Ericsson battery panel)
- Telephones in Various Countries – 1909
- Photographs of the Centenary Exhibition
- Who Invented the Telephone: Part 1
Issue No: 1 Date: August 1976 Pages:
4
- Introduction
- Membership
- Our Book
- Helpful Hint (removing grime from nickel plating)
- Photographs of the Centenary Exhibition
- The Telegraph
- The Way We Were
- Membership List
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