Ericofon - Pink shsdparentproduct Matching black handset and line

Matching black handset and line cords complete the look of this phone

GTE and Automatic Electric merged in 1955 and Leich was maintained as an operating subsidiary of GTE until the early 1960s when operations were fully merged with the parent company

Shell – The shell has been stripped down and sandblasted using a glass grit and powder coated in a semi-gloss olive green finish

The bakelite housing and receiver have been buffed to restore the phones original lustre and sheen

white modular line cord

Ericofon - Pink shsdparentproduct Matching black handset and lineHistory The Ericofon was designed in the late 1940s by a design team including Gsta Thames, Ralph Lysell, and Hugo Blomberg. The two major components of the telephone, the handset and the dial, are combined in a single unit. This one piece design anticipated the evolution of the typical cordless phone and cell phone by several decades. Serial production began in 1954. Early models were sold only to institutions, but in 1956 production for the open