Contempra Network Antique Phones GTE and Automatic Electric merged

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

This Kellogg Masterphone 1000 Desk phone gets it's familiar name "Redbar" from the red bar that is used to operate the hookswitch

The cord from the phone will then connect to a phone jack on the gateway

It was formed as the Eureka Electric Company which moved to Chicago in 1898

59a Dial Gasket for Western Electric or Northern Electric 300 Type Telephones

Contempra Network Antique Phones GTE and Automatic Electric mergedVery compact telephone network. Originally used on a Northern Electric Contempra