One 1963 – 1972 "Canadian Western Electric" 3-Slot Touch Tone Payphone

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1963 – 1972 "Canadian Western Electric" 3-Slot Touch Tone Payphone  - The dates on the backboard are 1955 – 57 – 61 = 72.  Well, I think Touch Tone may go back to 1963, and the patent date of 1955 is for other things about the payphone. My terminology regarding a “Canadian Western Electric” is because there is almost no difference between Toronto made and those made in Indianapolis! Plus, Western Electric or/and Bell engineers went to Canada to assist in the production of these payphones, no matter what you choose to brand them with. But okay: I can sympathize with your prejudice about “name brand” but it's psychological; not mechanical or physical. It has an armored cord. To completely remove the top, one must unplug a cord which electronically connects to the work-ability of the phone from the backboard. The key locks and unlocks the top from the rest of the phone. There are no channels in the top, so suppose and trust that the coins will drop simply by gravity to the lower part of the payphone and not always into the vault or coin return bucket. Also, thus there will not be a bell or gong sound as they are part of the absent channels (innards in the top housing directing coin traffic). The directions say “Lift receiver … use dime or 2 nickles...” . The directions card is original. The phone was mostly post pay. There is a place along the right side on the bottom housing where the chrome is absent; it is not real large but it obvious if you know it is there. Not as bad on the left side. It has a Northern Electric handset with armored cord and the door is a “snap in” door aluminum shell.
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.