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GTE AE 182

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Type: Desk Phone

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Manufacture :   GTE

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Production Date :  Manufactured in  1970

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Automatic Electric was founded in 1891 as Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company by Kansas City resident Almon Strowger, who invented the first automatic (dial) telephone switch in 1889, and a businessman named Joseph Harris. For decades, AE was a leading supplier of telephone equipment to independent (non-Bell) telephone companies across the United States.

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General Telephone and Electronics (GT&E) acquired Automatic Electric through a merger with Theodore Gary & Company in 1955, and continued operating the unit into the 1980s.

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The GTE  phones had “the look”. What inspired the Automatic Electric Type 182 “Starlite” was the popular Bell Princess Phone.

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Source :

ericofon

oldphoneworks

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