One - 1955–1972 Chicago Area (Northlake?) Black – Chrome Bottom 3-Slot Payphone

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1955 – 1972 Chicago Area (Northlake ?) Black – Chrome Bottom 3-Slot Payphone - This payphone has a chromed bottom. It has an armored cord. It has a top sign and chrome finger wheel. The middle direction card frame is nice old chrome. It is heavy! Call me, I'll enjoy sharing what I know about Automatic Electric ( 1912, 1920s – 1972) 3-Slot payphones. Parts interchange between 1912 and 1972 (over 60 years of extreme interchangeability). A.E. (Automatic Electric) and N.E. (Northern Electric 1954-1972) both ceased manufacturing of the 3-slotter in 1972. There isn't anything particularly remarkable about this payphone, it is rather ordinary, in use in booths in non-urban (not large metro) areas such as Peoria, Lacrosse and the likes and rural cities and villages. Most of A.E.'s manufacturing was Chicago but they ventured into suburbia such as Northlake, ILL shortly after 1955 labeling some of the payphones as made in Northlake. There's more to the history I'd gladly share. This payphone has not had a line cord hooked up so that you can plug it in (even with a cell phone) to operate. We can do this if you want. The vault (money) “door” is a 2020 aluminum cover and I can accommodate a lock-key door if you want for additional $. The name brands stamped into payphone through the years were Gray, Western Electric, Automatic Electric and Northern Electric. Automatic Electric bought Gray out in 1948. There after until the end (1972) A.E.'s name appeared on the front of their payphones. A large population lived in large cities where Bell used Western Electric telephones. These folks therefore think that payphones were Western Electric or Bell. But if you could count all the payphones that came out of booths when the Single Slot replaced them, you would probably find that over half were A.E. and the other half W.E. This phone does not have a plug-in cord so it is not capable of immediately working to dial out, talk-listen. I can have this accomplished for an additional and with a adapter will work on a cell phone line or telco line. The vault cover is a manufactured piece of aluminum. For additional, you can get an old door held in by a spring. For you can have a door with a modified lock and key, and for an original lock and key in the old door. Automatic Electric bought Gray out in 1948 and there after until the end 1972, A.E.'s name appeared on the front of their payphones.
Doors for Payphones
: Recognizing in April 2021 the need for a conservative approach for doors, locks and a key, I began thoughts on what to do.
About old doors
: If you are discriminating about them let us know. If you want to lock the vault for any reason, we need to know, and to discuss your options. Click on our profile for information. To have an old door with original lock would be to have a Northern Electric – Western Electric style (I call N.E. “Canadian Western Electric “ since they are so much the same) and were began with the help of Western Electric or/and Bell engineers) and would cost additionally. One of the challenges we face is that seldom, the Automatic Electric and Western doors don't always fit in good, interchangeably wise; there's a little snag in each one fitting the other well. I don't know much more than that about any of this.
Old doors without locks or with locks absent keys
: We can put a spring on the back side and hook it inside the vault. additionally.
Repro Doors
: Thick flat aluminum doors, I may need to get more of these made. But I can't make old doors; and I don't know where to buy them; and at 85, not terribly concerned (in April 2021). The thick flat aluminum doors we can “glue” a wood block on to the inside of it and hook the spring inside the vault. We'll probably keep using these in chrome payphones unless you say something.