CB-49 telephone

The CB-49, manufactured by the Radomska Wytwórnia Telefonów, was the first telephone manufactured in Poland after World War II. The device’s housing, handset, and connection socket were all made of Bakelite. The microphone and receiver were made of easily replaceable inserts, supported on contact springs in the respective chambers of the handset. The dial was mounted onto the telephone housing and connected to the contact strip using a cable. Other parts of the telephone were screwed to the device base. The CB-49 telephone was mostly produced in black, the model presented here is in the extremely rare cherry colour. The design was based on an existing Ericsson model but it was “slimmed down” to 1.9 kg (compared to the 3 kg weight of the original) and was developed over the next 20 years. Manufacturer: Radomska Wytwórnia Telefonów, Radom, 1950-1960 Inv. no.: MIM 920/VIII-39 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA