| Name | Coin Telephone 2 CT2 |
| Date | 1970 |
| Manufacturer | Melbourne Workshop |
| Usage | Booth |
| Notes | Easily vandalised and soon discontinued. Local calls only. Rare. Rather graceful design. See more notes below. |
Development of the Coin Telephone 2 (CT2)
| COIN TELEPHONE N0.2: These two basic types are known as Central Office and Melbourne Workshop models, and are very similar in concept. Less than one thousand were build in the early 1970’s and used around Melbourne. Two were installed in Sydney experimentally but were found unsatisfactory. The CT2 was a local call instrument only and was therefore probably obsolete when conceived, even as a complement to the CT1. The CT1 apart from design difficulties and problems associated with vandalism was only suitable for local calls or manually assisted trunk calls. The development of the CT3 by Telecom Australia takes advantage of new technology and innovations was designed for direct subscriber trunk dialing which automatic networks in Australia now provide. Source- (with thanks to) History of the telephone in New South Wales / by Jim Bateman [Croydon, N.S.W.] : J. Bateman, 1980 ISBN: 0959478701 Below- prototype (red phone, middle image) |
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