Gower Bell Telephone Co
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1879 Frederick Gower, an American engineer, patented a wall telephone (useful because early phones were heavy) which was marketed as the Gower-Bell telephone.
c.1880 Company formed in Britain by Charles James Wollaston, Frederick Gower and a few other individuals.
1881/82 David Moseley and Sons made telephone equipment under licence, such as the Gower-Bell wall telephone.
1881 United Telephone Co and Gower Bell Telephone Co formed Consolidated Telephone Construction and Maintenance Co Ltd to manufacture their telephones and equipment[1]. Arrangement to supply equipment to the Oriental Telephone Co Ltd[2].
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Sources of Information
- ↑ http://www.bobsoldphones.net/Pages/National/NationalHistory.htm
- ↑ The Times, 12 April 1881