CB-35 telephone (FSW)

Description

The CB-35 is a landline telephone, with pulse dialling using a rotary dial. It was manufactured by the PZT (Państwowe Zakłady Tele- i Radiotechniczne) from 1935 until the first years after World War II. It was the first Polish telephone with a Bakelite handset and a centrally located cradle button activated by picking up the receiver. Its design is typical of the telephones of the 1930s. What was exceptional about the CB-35 telephone was the place and time of its production. The dial bears a circle enclosed in a triangle of three lightning bolts - the symbol of the Państwowe Zakłady Tele- i Radiotechniczne. The letters inscribed in the circle, however, are not PZT but FSW, which resulted from reorganisation of the factory by the occupying German authorities. Państwowe Zakłady Tele- i Radiotechniczne was divided into the Fernmeldetechnische Staatswerk Warschau Manufacturer: Fernmeldetechnische Staatswerk Warschau, Warsaw 1940-1944 MIM1350/VIII-49 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements