Showed this to I know they'd love it!

I saw this and immediately went to: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10803422/

Yep, worked with all of it except for the candlestick... even I'm not that old.
Get that film developed before the last photo lab closes...
Your own PBX Coyotenet? Very, very cool.

Yep,I am also working on a rebuild of a WE step by step 'PBX'

reminds me of when my dad used to work for the railroad. only instead of routing buttons we had a patch panel on a 19" relay rack. also a baudeau (5 like parallel data) telebype that belonged to western union.

oh, and we still had party line crank phones in the company houses at norden. although those were part of the railroad and we also had the regular bell system phones for regular phone service.

(we also had a brand new microwave repeater system, "Southern Pacific Regional INtertie Telecommunications", later spun off as s.p.r.i.n.t.)

A very interesting story, however brief! the part you refer to: "also a baudeau (5 like parallel data) telebype that belonged to western union." This describes the WU 5 bit Baudot code well... WW2 era... isn't the old tech fascinating at times?

My mom used to be a PBX operator at Aerojet in the 1950s. Do you perhaps know where I could find facsimile Telegrams? (Stop.)

I AM NOT SURE WERE YOU MIGHT FIND FACSIMILE TELEGRAM FORMS STOP I AM ASSUMING YOU MEAN REPRO FORMS STOP MIGHT I SUGGEST DOING WEB SEARCH FOR WW2 REENACTING AND PAPERWORK TELEGRAM FORMS AND YOU MAY FIND SOMETHING STOP

REGARDS
ZIPPY COYOTE

Interestingly about 3 days ago I got this url for a news article about the last international telegrams:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2013/0614/India-to-end-state-run-telegram-service.-Stop?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20trblogposts%20%28Hottest%20blogosphere%20items%29

Good luck looking... if you do find any repro forms let me know. (Likewise I'll do same)
BTW, most often telegram itself was cut from the teletype roll and pasted onto the form which was then hand delivered to the recipient. Like in the movies, during WW2 seeing the Western Union boy at your doorstep often was a dreaded thing.

Right. In my "Steamfox" story there's a mysterious "Lady X" who's only been seen by "Sparky" the Fennec Radio operator, and all he's seen of the odd female is an elegantly gloved hand and arm with a gold bracelet on it. The hand is usually holding a large envelope, and instructions on where to send a cryptic telegram. I basically need to know the format for the forms, and I could probably fake up the message part in photoshop. I've read recently that sometimes a telegram sent from a ship at sea could cost like a nickel a word. A veritable fortune in 1949. Thanks for the info.

TRY THIS STOP

http://www.cthulhulives.org/toybox/.....nUnion1930.pdf

http://www.cthulhulives.org/toybox/.....s/Telegram.pdf

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://nyx.uky.edu/dips/xt7xks6j2258/data/rankin4kdl_5/rankin4kdl_5_47/i5-47/i5-47.jpg&imgrefurl=http://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt7xks6j2258_435_1&h=1711&w=2364&sz=1464&tbnid=ReaU3AUAv61qlM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=124&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtelegram%2Bform%2Bdownload%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=telegram+form+download&usg=__745BRD_utMlmfvxIdjoBZgwxr-I=&docid=024DNj3zWsu2YM&sa=X&ei=6nHEUcaiNaLi4APxnoCYBA&ved=0CEIQ9QEwAQ&dur=1460

Great phones, if they only had one you could plug your iPhone into...

anyway to get a 1937 AE phone to ring?

Possibly. I would need more info about the phone. There should be a number stamped somewhere on the base of the phone that could tell me more. Then I could look it up in the TCI document repository and help you. PM me for more info.

I find quite often in the case of AE phones, they used ringers with different frequency signals in party line service, something Bell rarely did.