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Western
Electric
Model 1500 and 2500
Telephone
From my personal collection.
The Western Electric model
1500
series (introduced in late 1963 or 1964) was the first touch-tone desk phone made by Western Electric and was the
touch-tone replacement for the model 500 rotary dial model and the compliment of
the 1554 touch-tone wall model. It had only 10 buttons on the dial pad
(the "asterick" and "pound" symbol buttons did not exist).
Northern Electric (the Bell Canada equivalent of Western
Electric)
produced a 1500 model using a 500 housing and circular adapter
plate for the dial. "The Northern Electric
version (1967) is even rarer
than the WE 1500 from what I hear, as it was identical to the prototype
developed in the States in the early 1960s (with the circular 500-like
housing)" states
Mimmo Briganti of Canada. Photo courtesy of Mimmo.
The 1500 was later replaced by the model 2500
(12-button model) around 1967. I have a
generic clear plastic housing that I placed over a Western Electric chassis and
handset components as seen HERE.
Contents of
this page:
2503-Type
2500D - Click on either GIF
format or PDF format
2500DM, and 2500DMG
2502B, 2502BM, and 2502BMG
2510F, 2510FM, and 2510FMG
2511F, 2511H, and 2511HM
2515B,
2515BM, and 2515BMG 2500M, 2500MM (or
2500MM
in PDF format), and 2500MMG
2500S and 2500SM
2500Y, 2500YM, and 2500YMG
25148, 2514BM, and 2514BMG
2526B
2526BM (part 1) (part 2)
2526BMG
All original material on this web site is copyrighted ©1997 - ©2005 by David Massey.
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