Siemens Halske W28 telephone

Description

In the second half of the 1920s, Siemens & Halske sought a telephone model that would break away from the existing design style, be easy to operate and maintain, and could be efficiently fabricated. This led to the development of Siemens & Halske’s most recognisable telephones: the W28 model. It was successfully offered in a tender for the standard German telephone. From 1928, the W28 became the standard telephone model of the Deutsche Reichspost. In the mid-1930s, the German postal service placed an order for the W28’s successor, the W38 model (38 production launch). However, due to the outbreak of the war a year later the new telephone came too late to replace the W28. The flagship Siemens & Halske model of the 1920s and 1930s enjoyed a major export success. Manufacturer: Siemens & Halske, after 1928 Inv. no.: MIM 1825/VIII-68 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)