Automatic Electric No. 2 - Black Featured Products The Automatic Electric Type 21

The Automatic Electric Type 21 Metal Wall Phone dates from the 1930s and includes all required components including the ringer in a single cabinet

The history of Leich is as convoluted as it is interesting

You can choose to have one installed internally or a small external ringer (About the size of two decks of cards)

This modern day version of the Candlestick phone would have surely made Alexander Graham Bell proud

In the early days they were set up on the hotel front desk for guests to use

Automatic Electric No. 2 - Black Featured Products The Automatic Electric Type 21HistoryAutomatic Electric were the first North American company to manufacture a self contained deskset. The result were the Automatic Electric 2 and 12. Both phones shared the same dial and housing but the receiver is where the difference lies. The AE2 uses a traditional inductor coil in the base of the phone whereas the AE12 uses an inductive coil receiver unit and does not have an inductor coil. This phone here is a number 2. The unmistakable