Pattern 2140 Navyphone

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The Pattern 2140 Navyphone was a British Navyphone used in the Royal Navy, intended for ordinary working or fire control.[1] In modern parlance, it would be called an intercom, and very similar to the Pattern 1855 Navyphone, differing only in having its call-up push on the right rather than the left and in that its transmitter and receiver were "more efficient".[2]

Pattern 2140 Navyphone
As shown in Torpedo Drill Book, 1914. Presumably, the little circle at upper right is the call-up button, but descriptions c1902 indicate this push was on the left side.

Form Factor

The 2140 was bulkhead mounted in a cylindrical iron chassis, possibly around 15cm across.[3] It had a push-to-talk lever marked Press whilst talking[4] (or Press whilst speaking[5]) on the right side and a speaking transmitter on its face. Like many navyphones, its speaker was inside and faced rearward; a metallic horn around 60mm at its mouth came out from beneath the chassis and projected the remote speaker's voice out to the local listener.

A call button located on the right side.[6] sufficed to ring the bell at both the local and remote terminals.[Citation needed] The bells were not themselves an integral part of the navyphone.[7]

The transmitter could probably be revolved (by rolling about its axis)[8] "to shake up the carbon granules"[9] as in the Pattern 1855.

Like most navyphones before those used in Lord Nelson, Bellerophon and later classes, these phones were battery-powered, probably powered in pairs off six pattern 1453 cells in a pattern 1704 battery box near one of the two.[10] This box was separate.

Service Life

These phones were almost certainly obsolete by 1924, by which time only phones in the 2460 and 3330 series were in general use.[11]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Torpedo Drill Book, 1914, p. 262.
  2. ↑ Torpedo Drill Book, 1914, p. 262.
  3. ↑ inferred from Pattern 1855 Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1902, Plate 25.
  4. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1902, p. 60.
  5. ↑ Torpedo Drill Book, 1914, p. 259.
  6. ↑ Torpedo Drill Book, 1914, p. 262.
  7. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1907, Plate 10.
  8. ↑ Electrical Drill Book, 1924, p. 275.
  9. ↑ Torpedo Drill Book, 1914, p. 260.
  10. ↑ Torpedo Drill Book, 1914, p. 263.
  11. ↑ Electrical Drill Book, 1924, p. 286.

Bibliography

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