Switchboard [Ericsson]
Maker and role
Ericsson Telephone Limited, Manufacturer
Production date
Circa 1920s
Object detail
Accession number
2014.511
Production period
Description
100 line manual Ericsson Manual Telephone Exchange / Switch Board (1920s) wooden desk with shelf/desktop, from the Matakana (Warkworth and Leigh) area. Shelf has plugs/jacks, switches, black hardboard panel that slides out, upper section above shelf has a panel (metal/ceramic?) with numbered (black on white circles) sockets, panel above this has numbers (black on white circles) under hinged metal covers that found down and clip up, above both panels in centre is a bayonet light socket on true left is a white switch and a light switch, on true right there is a green and a yellow switch.
Media/Materials
Credit Line
Ericsson Telephone Limited. Circa 1920s. Switchboard [Ericsson], 2014.511. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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